BIB_ID
376165
Accession number
MA 854.78
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1824 Feb. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private & Confidential."
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 details.
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 details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Enclosing an invitation from "the Court of Madrid to assist at a Conference" on the "question of Spanish America"; also sending the British government's reply to the invitation; remarking that "if ever there was an intention of interference in this matter by force, on the part of any of the Continental Powers -- there is an end of it."
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