BIB_ID
116933
Accession number
MA 1272.50
Creator
Stevenson, Roger, active 1780-1782.
Display Date
1782 Sept. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "William Pulteney Esq'r / M.P. / Shrewsbury."
Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight was considered as a possible site for a military recruiting depot and training facility for the East India Company. It appears Roger Stevenson was a representative of or contact for Carisbrooke Castle. His plan would voted down in 1787 by the Directors for the Company.
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight was considered as a possible site for a military recruiting depot and training facility for the East India Company. It appears Roger Stevenson was a representative of or contact for Carisbrooke Castle. His plan would voted down in 1787 by the Directors for the Company.
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Relating news of the military movements in the West Indies of mutual friends; expressing his disappointment and frustration concerning an appointment he is seeking with the East India Company and the lack of interest in his plan for Carisbrooke Castle.
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