BIB_ID
108205
Accession number
MA 297.65
Creator
Burgess, William, active 1798.
Display Date
[1798?] Jun. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.6 cm
Notes
It is possible the recipient was Sir James Pulteney.
Volume 2 (MA 297) 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 297.1-65).
Written from "No. 40 Crutched Friars"
Volume 2 (MA 297) 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 297.1-65).
Written from "No. 40 Crutched Friars"
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning intelligence received concerning the French at Ostend; saying he received a "Letter from an American Captain at Ostend, dated 8th who left Dunkirk 7th Inst. - he says that on leaving Dunkirk, the French seemed determined to possess themselves of Ostend"
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