BIB_ID
376287
Accession number
MA 854.91
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1825 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private & Confidential."
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.
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
Sending him copies of letters from Lord [William] Grenville and Lord [Ulick John De-Burgh] Clanricarde; noting that he "wish[es] ... for a vacancy in the Representative Peerage, to which Clanricarde may succeed"; observing that he wants "to ascertain [Clanricarde's] station as a Member of the House of Peers" so he can "bring him into business, in some way or other"; asking him to return the copies of letters.
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