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Autograph letter signed : "HM Sloop Rambler Cadiz Bay", to Thomas Tizard, 1812 May 29.

BIB_ID
116301
Accession number
MA 1273.53
Creator
Tizard, James, active 1812.
Display Date
1812 May 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Mr. Thomas Tizard / William Lane / Near the / Custom House / Weymouth / Dorset."
Addressed as "Dear Uncle."
Endorsed.
Volume 16 (MA 1273) 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 1273.1-54).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Relating in detail the recent engagements of his ship; asking for his help and the help of his father in getting him sent home.