BIB_ID
104946
Accession number
MA 1266.40
Creator
Elphinstone, George Keith, 1746-1823.
Display Date
1800 Oct. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 9 (MA 1266) 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 1266.1-61).
Volume 9 (MA 1266) 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 1266.1-61).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him that the ship (HMS Audacious) which was intended to bring him to Portugal has not gone into the port where Pulteney was to have met the ship "and I am sorry you have been left behind;" directing the Princess Charlotte to alter its course to pick him up.
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