BIB_ID
104716
Accession number
MA 38.13
Creator
Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786.
Display Date
1782 May 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 items (1 p., with address), bound ; 23.4 cm.
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "T.W. Coke Esq. / Harley Street;" the street address was originally written as "Hanover Square" but that has been crossed out and Harley Street written beneath it.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written from the "Admiralty;" Keppel was appointed first lord of the Admiralty in March 1782.
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written from the "Admiralty;" Keppel was appointed first lord of the Admiralty in March 1782.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Presenting his compliments; writing in the third person to inform Thomas William Coke that he has "directed an order to be made out to Captain Burney to command the "Bristol"...."which he hopes will soon enable him to give Captain Burney the promotion that is wished for him."
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