Autograph letter signed : "F[oreign] O[ffice]" [London], to [Lord Richard] Wellesley, 1825 Oct. 20.

Record ID: 
376389
Accession number: 
MA 854.103
Author: 
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes: 

At top of p. [1]: "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.

Summary: 

Sending him some papers that will "put [him] in possession of [their] exact position in relation to the Greek and Turk -- the most difficult & delicate of the Questions now pending"; reporting that a "question" that "menaced a rupture with the King" has been settled.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.