Autograph letter signed : "[HMS] Tonnant", to [Sir James Pulteney?], [1809] Mar. 1.

Record ID: 
105458
Accession number: 
MA 1265.3
Author: 
Hancock, Richard J., -1813.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9cm
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).

Summary: 

Asking for his assistance to obtain a new assignment as a result of the assignment of a new Commander to the H.M.S. Tonnant; expressing his desire to be assigned to Admiral de Courcy.

Provenance: 
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.