BIB_ID
105487
Accession number
MA 1264.56
Creator
Gwyn, Francis Edward, 1748-1821.
Display Date
1801 Oct. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 7 (MA 1264) 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 1264.1-56).
Volume 7 (MA 1264) 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 1264.1-56).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him that he received an order from His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief to sell the horses belonging to the 16th and 18th Regiments "which I returned as of a second class, in addition to those returned by me at the same time unfit for service." adding "This order will leave the 16th about 500 Strong in horses & the 18th about 470 odd I think when the 2nd class are sold."
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