BIB_ID
118073
Accession number
MA 1272.6
Creator
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806.
Display Date
1801 Oct. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
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
Acknowledging receipt of his letter in which he regrets that he is unable to "comply with my Request for allowing the small detachment of fifty men, and the supplementary of the Sussex Militia who are so soon to be disembodied to remain here to relieve the Distress of the Country from want of Labourers."
Catalog link
Department