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Autograph letter signed : Bordeaux, to Monsieur de Lally Tolendol, 1805 Jan. 14.

BIB_ID
124797
Accession number
MA 1267.47
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1805 Jan. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (6 p.)
Notes
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).
Written from "Hotel des Ambassadeurs."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing his pleasure that he can call him his friend and that they will correspond; referring to issues of law surrounding the inheritance of Salton, the estate of General Fletcher and his brother General Fletcher-Campbell and the possibility of Madame de Lally being an "Heir of entail."