BIB_ID
120195
Accession number
MA 1274.2
Creator
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805.
Display Date
1757 Mar. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Mr. Johnstone / Ed'r."
Volume 17 (MA 1274) 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 1274.1-74).
Volume 17 (MA 1274) 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 1274.1-74).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the "Kelso cause;" reporting that he "broke the Tie today in ye Kelso cause. I spoke fully, I'm afraid too long, & I spoke to be heard. I was foolishly uneasy about it, & I am now vexed the cause was dry, but I might have made it less so - Forester told me before I began that he thought the House was ag't: us, which made every little circumstance distressing & heavy to me. L'd Hardwicke moved an adjournment till tomorrow & said he was not clear in his judg't upon it, as I was told. I hope we shan't lose every point, & one you [illegible] I hardly expected to gain, especially after what Mr. Ferguson wrote for me at Ed'r:, I mean the prescription - Forester at ye Consultation thought every point was w'h us & that If the appellant had not been a minor we should have got costs. I was not so sanguine. Upon the whole I am very uneasy..."
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