Autograph letter signed : "F[oreign] O[ffice]" [London], to [Lord Richard] Wellesley, 1824 Feb. 20.

Record ID: 
376165
Accession number: 
MA 854.78
Author: 
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Credit: 
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.

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."

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.