BIB_ID
124787
Accession number
MA 1267.55
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1805 Dec. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to Monsieur Lacuée as "Conseiller D'Etate, President de la Section de la Guerre at Paris."
Docketed.
Volume 10 (MA 1267) 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 1267.1-60).
Docketed.
Volume 10 (MA 1267) 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 1267.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning his request for a three month leave to return to England; enclosing a letter for his wife in which he has enclosed a letter for the British Minister of War; also enclosing a letter for Sir Alexander Ball, the Governor of Malta and assuring him that "you may rely upon it, that every possible attention will be paid to your Nephew, as if you had him under your own roof, or under his very worthy Fathers;" cautioning him that he has been out of touch with his relatives over the last two and a half years and may not be as effective as the "return of your Nephew to his native country requires. - Therefore Sir I leave it entirely to your own opinion and Decision whether you may confide in the integrity of a True born Scotchman who knows not How to violate his Honor nor his word. That by procuring for me that three months leave to go to England (which will be the means of saving my Family from ruin) I may have with more facility the power of bringing your Nephew over with me and with my Family on my return presenting him to you, If he should be obliged to come to England from Malta to come to France. The waters of Barége is so indispensably necessary for me as well as the climate and the Education this Country affords for my Five Daughters - all these Benefits which are to be derived in this charming country, all combines to make my return to France an object I would not wish to relinquish, on any account..." assuring him that he would consider it an honor to return his nephew to him and to his country.
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