BIB_ID
376054
Accession number
MA 855.47
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Marked "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.
Written at "1/2 p. 10 - a.m."
Marked "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.
Written at "1/2 p. 10 - a.m."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Accepting Lord Castlereagh's challenge of September 19th (MA 855.45); saying "The Tone and the Purport of Your Lordship's Letter (which I have this moment received) of course preclude any other answer on my Part, to the Misapprehensions and Misrepresentations with which it abounds, than that I will cheerfully give to your Lordship the Satisfaction which you require."
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