BIB_ID
376216
Accession number
MA 855.61
Creator
Heredia y Begines Rivers, Narciso, 1775-1847.
Display Date
1823 Dec. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.4 cm
Notes
Canning forwarded this letter and the enclosed proposal to Lord Wellesley in his letter from the Foreign Office, London, dated February 20, 1824 (MA 854.78).
Docketed with a note " Copy / Translation / The Conde de Ofalia to Sir W. à̀ Court / Madrid Dec. 26, 1823 / 1. Enclosure / Proposing a Congress / at Paris."
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.
Docketed with a note " Copy / Translation / The Conde de Ofalia to Sir W. à̀ Court / Madrid Dec. 26, 1823 / 1. Enclosure / Proposing a Congress / at Paris."
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Concerning the intent of the Spanish government "to devote particular attention to the regulation of the affairs concerning the disturbed countries of Spanish America;" enclosing a proposal for a Congress at Paris on the question of Spanish America; noting that the proposal is also being extended "To the Ambassador of His catholic Majesty at Paris, and to His Ministers Plenipot'y at Petersburg and Vienna."
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