BIB_ID
81560
Accession number
MA 9185
Creator
Calcraft, John, 1726-1772.
Display Date
[year of writing unknown] October 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 31.4 x 19.3 cm
Notes
The text is written in the form of a long column. There are crossings-out and autograph corrections.
On the verso, there is what appears to be a contemporary note identifying this as "John Calcraft's Memoranda."
On the verso, there is what appears to be a contemporary note identifying this as "John Calcraft's Memoranda."
Provenance
This letter was removed from Volume 3 of a bound collection of the correspondence of Philip Francis (MA 150). The correspondence had gone by descent to Philip Francis's eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and was in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Consisting of numbered notes about the meeting of a "Common Council," at which the performance of a "Recorder" was discussed; reporting that the resolution taken was to "Employ the Recorder in no City Business He being deemd unworthy their Confid[en]ce"; referring to an individual who defended the "Right of the Subject to Petition and Remonstrate" in Parliament; adding that "there was not a syllable mentiond of a Remonstrance from any One Quarter to Mr. S."
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