BIB_ID
375999
Accession number
MA 855.37
Creator
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812.
Display Date
[1809 Sept. 7].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.6 cm
Notes
Date of writing from docket.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more detail.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more detail.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Concerning the resignation of the Duke of Portland; saying he has seen the letter that Canning wrote to the Duke of Portland that morning; assuring him "that, as the Duke of Portland's resignation has appeared to me to open a reasonable way out of the difficulties which might otherwise have attended the arrangement proposed with respect to Lord C[astlereagh] and Lord W[ellesley], I have not nor ever had under that state of things the least intention of considering the arrangement which the King had promised as one that should in any degree call for my resignation. - Indeed I certainly had looked to the Duke of Portland's resignation as likely to facilitate the arrangement in the manner most satisfactory to the feelings of all of us; and it is with the greatest reluctance that I should relinquish the hopes that it might produce the desired effect.
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