BIB_ID
339167
Accession number
MA 148.32
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1770 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 22.8 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and 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
Telling him that "The Princess of Wales is gone to Germany. She means to show the world that there is nothing in that pretended secret influence which has been so much talked of lately. It can hardly be a party of pleasure at her time of life, and many people think she will never return. If the opposition do not entirely succeed in all their designs, they have at least the pleasure of tormenting his most gracious Majesty most abominably;" saying that "Junius is not known, and that circumstance is perhaps as curious as any of his writings. I have always suspected Burke; but, whoever he is, it is impossible he can ever discover himself;" telling him that if he would like a lottery ticket he must hear from him before the drawing.
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