BIB_ID
376097
Accession number
MA 855.50
Creator
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.5 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.
With a notation "Copy from Mr. Perceval to Lord Grey (the same to Lord Grenville)."
With a notation "Copy from Mr. Perceval to Lord Grey (the same to Lord Grenville)."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Informing him that as a result of the resignation of the Duke of Portland "His Majesty has authorized Lord Liverpool, in conjunction with myself, to communicate with your Lordship and Lord Grenville, for the purpose of forming an extended and combined administration. I hope, therefore, that your Lordship in consequence of this communication, will come to Town, in order that as little time as possible, may be lost, in forwarding this important object, and that you will have the goodness to inform me of your arrival...I think it proper to add, for your Lordships information, that Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Secretary Canning have also intimated their intention to resign their offices."
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