BIB_ID
80922
Accession number
MA 9228
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1802 November 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Canning gives the place of writing as "37 Conduit Street," an address in London where he is known to have lived.
Docketed.
Docketed.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1902. This item was part of, and later removed from, an extra-illustrated copy of George Williams Fulcher, The Life of Thomas Gainsborough (London: [Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans], 1856.); PML 196268-72.
Summary
Telling his correspondent that the "Navy Estimates" will be coming in on Wednesday: "They mean to ask 50,000 Seaman -- and, as it is understood, only for 3 months"; writing that he would very much like to know "the P's [possibly referring to the Prime Minister] opinion of the sufficiency or insufficiency of such a Vote"; discussing the sensitivity of this inquiry and adding "if you should happen to collect what he thinks upon the subject, I should see no impropriety in letting me know it, it would be some satisfaction to my mind. I certainly have my own opinion: but I should be desirous to avoid stating one opposite to his. At least I would not do so knowingly"; commenting that he also "anxiously hopes to hear from you that he remains firm in his [intention?] to abstain from attendance, or interference"; discussing other aspects of the vote.
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