Title: Letter signed by H.S. Conway as British secretary of state, regarding the Tripoline ambassador's baggage Author: Conway, Hugh Seymour Place: St. James Publisher: Date: Nov. 12, 1765 Description: 14 lines, in ink, on single sheet 12x7½. Hugh Seymour Conway (1721-1795), once a lieutenant-general who fell from rank, recently appointed secretary of state under the Marquis of Rockingham, finds that no detail is too small for his office, addressing the Clerk of the Stables, "The Tripoline Ambassador having applied to me for an order to have his Baggage brought from the Ship it is on board of & to be deposited where he shall direct, I am to desire that you will please to give Orders that the Ambassadors goods may be conveyed accordingly as has been usual..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. Lot Amendments Condition: Adhesion damage along left margin; very good. Item number: 202675
Title: Letter signed by H.S. Conway as British secretary of state, regarding the Tripoline ambassador's baggage Author: Conway, Hugh Seymour Place: St. James Publisher: Date: Nov. 12, 1765 Description: 14 lines, in ink, on single sheet 12x7½. Hugh Seymour Conway (1721-1795), once a lieutenant-general who fell from rank, recently appointed secretary of state under the Marquis of Rockingham, finds that no detail is too small for his office, addressing the Clerk of the Stables, "The Tripoline Ambassador having applied to me for an order to have his Baggage brought from the Ship it is on board of & to be deposited where he shall direct, I am to desire that you will please to give Orders that the Ambassadors goods may be conveyed accordingly as has been usual..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. Lot Amendments Condition: Adhesion damage along left margin; very good. Item number: 202675
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