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Autograph letter signed : "Storrs" [near Bowness-on-Windermere], to [Lord Richard] Wellesley, 1825 Sept. 9.

BIB_ID
376308
Accession number
MA 854.94
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1825 Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 23.8 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Reporting that he is leaving Storrs Hall and returning to London; explaining that "nothing can be definitively settled about the Irish Representative Peerage" until he meets with "L."; mentioning [Robert] Peel and others; discussing his efforts to have Lord Clanricarde made a British peer; telling him to direct his letters to the Foreign Office.