BIB_ID
105101
Accession number
MA 1290
Display Date
1800-1808.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (51 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
Volume 33 (MA 1290) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the low Countries and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 51 documents, primarily returns, for regiments quartered in Kent, Sussex, Colchester, Chelmsford, Lancashire and other barracks in England in the years 1800, 1804, 1805, 1806 and 1808. The returns detail regimental expenses, troop strength and regimental casualties. The volume also includes an autograph report entitled "Remarks" on the 2nd Battalion, 10th Regiment of Foot (MA 1290.15) signed J.C. Sherbrooke; a copy of a report titled "Causes that have contributed to the mortality of the 1st Batt. Royal Irish" which addresses the period August 1, 1805 to December 17, 1806 authored by William Gordon, Assistant Surgeon, 6th Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot quartered in Jamaica; a printed circular (MA 1290.30) issued by King George III, dated August 13, 1807 and titled "An Act for allowing a certain Proportion of the Militia in Great Britain voluntarily to enlist into His Majesty's Regular Forces" and a printed transmittal letter of this circular (MA 1290.29) "To the Commanding Officer of the _____;" two manuscript fragments (MA 1290.46 and MA 1290.47) which appear to have been authored by General John Murray in his defense related to his court martial in 1814 at which charges were brought against him for the withdrawal of this troops at Tarragona in 1813.
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