Record ID:
339461
Accession number:
MA 148.61
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 22.1 cm.
Notes:
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Relating news of family and friends; saying "I miss your letters from England. The packet which comes to me constantly in the envoy's bag makes people think I am at the bottom of all the secrets of state so that to impose upon other people I need only hold my tongue and look cunning;" expressing his worry that he [Francis] may be drinking too much wine in such a hot climate [Francis is in Calcutta].
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.
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