Record ID:
375668
Accession number:
MA 854.20
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description:
1 item (5 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes:
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more details.
Summary:
Sending him "two or three indispensible statements" about L[ord William] G[renville's] letter and "leav[ing] whatever is of minor importance to be discussed ... in town"; complaining that Grenville took his letter to L[ord] L[owther] in the wrong way; mentioning Lord Melville [Henry Dundas]; writing that "it is best to reserve" many of his comments until they meet.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
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