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).
Enclosing several Returns and reporting on the state of the Battalion under his command; reporting "we have a very great proportion of Sick, caused chiefly by the extreme state of weakness and debility to which the whole are reduced by severe and repeated Sickness, every man in the Reg't having been...in Hospital at least three times during the last twelve months. It shall be my endeavour to nurse them as much as their exhausted State requires which however puts a final stop to any other attempt being made for their improvement. It is not perhaps for me to make any further observations than those that merely fall under the Official communication of a Comm'g officer, yet Sir, it is impossible not to deplore the melancholy fate of so many young men, that would in any other Climate have done honor to their Country...With regard to the Accoutrements they are certainly bad, yet I hope to be able to make them hold out while we remain in this Country;" asking for a set of Brass drums; reporting on the stores of clothing; discussing personnel issues concerning several officers; reporting, in a postscript, that they have insufficient Drummers Clothing..