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Autograph letter signed : "Bromham, near Bedford", to Sir James Pulteney, 1803 July 24.

BIB_ID
105196
Accession number
MA 1265.2
Creator
Hampden, Thomas Hampden Trevor, Viscount, 1746-1824.
Display Date
1803 July 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind letter regarding the "result of Willy Hepburne's Trial;" offering to help in "lessening the force of what may yet hang over his head...What do military men say of the Harshness & asperity of Ellenborough's charge & remarks to the Jury?"