BIB_ID
105156
Accession number
MA 1262.31
Creator
Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, Duke of, 1767-1852.
Display Date
1803 Dec. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Major Gen'l Don / &c &c &c / West Barns."
Signed as "Douglas & Clydesdale."
Volume 5 (MA 1262) 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 1262.1-75).
Signed as "Douglas & Clydesdale."
Volume 5 (MA 1262) 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 1262.1-75).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Replying to his note agreeing to offer an Ensigncy to a person recommended by Sir James Pulteney; asking that he be granted permission to"order the guards to be no longer taken from the fort to exchange in the middle of the night" as a concern for their safety.
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