BIB_ID
101402
Accession number
MA 1265.33
Creator
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Display Date
1767 Nov. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
The place of writing and the identity of the recipient is from the published letter cited below. The footnotes to the published letter also indicate the topic under discussion may likely be the dividends of the East India Company.
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
Saying he has communicated his idea to General Conway who liked it very much and would like to see the calculations he proposes to make; adding that General Conway "wishes you would turn your Thoughts to the Question, whether it would be better to confine the Company to a Dividend of 10 or 12 1/2 per cent, till the time of the Payment of their Bond Debts, and that you would weigh all that can be said on both Sides. He proposes to ask the Favour of a Conversation with you on this Subject, and would be glad to find you prepared to give him the best Information."
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