BIB_ID
101268
Accession number
MA 1265.24
Creator
Hompesch, Charles, fl. 1809
Display Date
1809 Mar. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 8 (MA 1265) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1265.1-59).
Volume 8 (MA 1265) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1265.1-59).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Acknowledging that he has seen in the papers that the Duke of York "from motives of delicacy" has resigned; suggesting "the propriety of the general officers presenting an humble petition to his Majesty praying to restore to the army our noble and worthy Commander in chief."
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