[Drop-head title:] A Letter from a Right Hon. Person to ------ in the City

[PITT, William]

Published by [s.n.] [1761], [London], 1761

About this Item

Single leaf broadside. Mounted on later paper sheet. Engraved name and portrait of William Pitt the Elder at the head of the title. Two old horizontal folds, single small marginal stain. A later pencilled note to the mount curiously quotes an entry in Church of England clergyman James Woodforde's (1740-1803) The Diary of a Country Parson (1924-31): 'Gave the Bath Newsman for Mr. Pitt's speech 0.1.0' - given the entry is dated 11th April 1766, it is highly unlikely to be a reference to the present document. A broadside defence of William Pitt the Elder's (1708-1778) resignation as Secretary of State following his failure to persuade his colleagues to declare war on Spain to forestall its entry into the hostilities of the Seven Years' War; first published, with a reply, in the Annual Register (1761) with the declaration that these 'are most certainly genuine and original'. ESTC records copies at a single location in the British Isles (Oxford), and two further locations in North America (Brown and Harvard). ESTC T152697. Size: Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. Seller Inventory # AQ29200

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Title: [Drop-head title:] A Letter from a Right Hon...

Publisher: [s.n.] [1761], [London]

Publication Date: 1761