BIB_ID
341063
Accession number
MA 149.62
Creator
Fowke, Joseph, 1716-1806.
Display Date
1780 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.3 cm.
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter.
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
Referring to the dispute with Warren Hastings; saying "Ruin is advancing upon us by hasty strides, and nothing is left for us but to meet it with constancy. As much an enemy as I am to Hastings, I receive no satisfaction from his misery, and where the Publick is concerned I should even rejoice to help him out of his distress. But he has too high an opinion of his own abilities to receive any benefit from good counsel."
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