BIB_ID
119496
Accession number
MA 1273.54
Creator
Villettes, William Anne, 1754-1808.
Display Date
1808 June 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
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).
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
Reporting on the poor health and disability of the 18th Regiment of Foot (Royal Irish); saying "The Barracks where they are quartered in Spanish Town is like many others in the Island, in a most horrid situation, without any possibility of amendment in the present mode of administering all public affairs here;" relating efforts to improve the 18th's discipline and performance but saying "...the effects of former neglect and of immoderate drinking is, as it is in most Regiments who have been any time in the West Indies, too deeply rooted in them, to promise much active Service from them;" reporting that he has had no report from the 2nd Battalion at Curacao.
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