BIB_ID
376192
Accession number
MA 854.84
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1824 Sept. 9.
Credit line
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.
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
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.
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