BIB_ID
376284
Accession number
MA 854.90
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1825 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (18 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
Remarking that he is sending this letter via a servant who is going to Dublin to bring back his son, "who has been spending his Eton holidays with the Clanricardes"; asking for his opinion "as to the state of Ireland," especially "as to the probable effect of a Dissolution of Parliament, both upon Mr. [Daniel] O'Connell's plans for exciting disturbances, & upon the respective numbers of Catholick & AntiCatholick in the new returns"; discussing why he thinks this is a favorable time for the dissolution of Parliament; wondering how a dissolution of Parliament will affect the "Catholick Question"; mentioning [Edward John] Littleton.
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