Autograph letter signed : "F[oreign] O[ffice]" [London], to [Lord Richard] Wellesley, 1824 Sept. 9.

Record ID: 
376192
Accession number: 
MA 854.84
Author: 
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.4 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: 

Telling him that he hopes to be on his way to Ireland by the time Wellesley receives this letter; mentioning that he took his leave of George IV, who sent "many gracious remembrances" to Wellesley; alluding to the issue of Catholic emancipation.

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