BIB_ID
107711
Accession number
MA 1271.37
Creator
Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, 1757-1833.
Display Date
1813 May 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Volume 14 (MA 1271) 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 1271.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning preparations for the siege at Tarragona and the assistance the Royal Navy will provide in the transport of men and stores; adding that he does not feel it appropriate to leave his port [off Toulon] but he is ready to do so whenever he hears from him that assistance is needed.
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