BIB_ID
376260
Accession number
MA 854.86
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1824 Dec. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private & Most 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 is confined to his bed "with a severe fit of the gout"; remarking that the Cabinet has recommended to the King [George IV] "to take forthwith certain steps for defining & establishing the relations between this country, & the States of Mexico & Colombia"; reporting that he is "drawing instructions for plenipotentiaries" who will go to these states "to negotiate & conclude, & sign, on His Majesty's behalf, Commercial Treaties with them"; discussing [Simón] Bolívar.
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