BIB_ID
120486
Accession number
MA 1260.45
Display Date
[1793?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Rt. Honble. / Henry Dundas."
Docketed: "Extract of a letter from the Chancellor to Mr. Dundas." The letter, which discusses the attack on Dunkirk, was probably written ca. 1793. This would mean Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of Rosslyn was Lord Chancellor.
Volume 3 (MA 1260) 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 MA 1260 for more information.
With seal.
Docketed: "Extract of a letter from the Chancellor to Mr. Dundas." The letter, which discusses the attack on Dunkirk, was probably written ca. 1793. This would mean Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of Rosslyn was Lord Chancellor.
Volume 3 (MA 1260) 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 MA 1260 for more information.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the attack on Dunkirk.
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