BIB_ID
376034
Accession number
MA 855.43
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
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
Expressing his wish to retire; delivering his opinion "without disguise or reservation"...with respect to the arrangement to be made upon Your Grace's retirement from office;" discussing, at length, the issues related to the proper succession of power, the choice of who should succeed the Duke of Portland and the relative merits of Perceval and himself as successor; concluding with the statement that his "sincere wish is to be enabled to retire at the same time with your Grace."
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