BIB_ID
107809
Accession number
MA 1262.32
Creator
Douglas, Robert, -1828.
Display Date
1803 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lt. General / Sir James Pulteney B't / &c &c &c / Brighton / Sussex." The letter was originally address to Sir James Pulteney at Park Lane / London, but that has been crossed through.
Endorsed.
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).
Endorsed.
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
Enclosing the proceedings of a Battalion Court Martial, stating his reasons for disagreeing with the sentence and requesting that the prisoner be superseded.
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