BIB_ID
376028
Accession number
MA 855.42
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 26.5 cm
Notes
Marked "Duplicate - Copy."
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.
This extract is taken from the letter which follows in the collection, MA 855.43.
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.
This extract is taken from the letter which follows in the collection, MA 855.43.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Asking him to remember that when he "reminded Your Grace last week of Lord Wellesley's intended succession to the War Department, I knew not that your Grace had any thought of retiring;" discussing further the difficulties surrounding the resignation; concluding that he "could not honestly be party to the arrangement being carried into effect under circumstances which might deprive it of all its benefit."
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