BIB_ID
108201
Accession number
MA 1263.16
Creator
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792.
Display Date
1767 Jan. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 30.3 cm
Notes
In an unknown contemporary hand with the following note at the top of the page: "Copy of a letter from Duke Ferdinand to my Ld Chatham."
Volume 6 (MA 1263) 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 MA 1263 for more information.
Volume 6 (MA 1263) 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 MA 1263 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Recommending Major-General Beckwith to succeed [Baron Robert] Clive on his recall from India.
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