BIB_ID
119654
Accession number
MA 1266.10
Creator
James, Charles, active 1804-1811.
Display Date
1809 July 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragment of a seal and postmarks to "The Right Honble / Sir Jas. Pulteney Bart / Bath House / Piccadilly."
Charles James has signed the letter for the firm as "Jenkins James & Abbott."
Endorsed.
Volume 9 (MA 1266) 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 1266.1-61).
Charles James has signed the letter for the firm as "Jenkins James & Abbott."
Endorsed.
Volume 9 (MA 1266) 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 1266.1-61).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Sending a copy of a letter from Henry Waddington & Co, also dated July 27, 1809 from New Bridge Street, London, that was sent to the firm with the request that it be sent to Pulteney; informing him that they will be "returning the Bill drawn by Rob't Troup upon the late Lady Bath for £11,000 by the next packet to America - We have intimated the same to Sr. John Johnstone & to his Solicitor Mr. Lawten who appear decidedly of opinion, that in the present of the Business, & to avert the ruinous Consequences that will attend the property in America by this measure the Executors ought to provide payment for the Bill."
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