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Autograph letter signed : Bath, to Mrs. Dunn, 1796 Jan. 24.

BIB_ID
125208
Accession number
MA 1271.28
Creator
Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817.
Display Date
1796 Jan. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Mrs. Dunn."
Endorsed.
Volume 14 (MA 1271) 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 1271.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Apologizing for not having answered her sooner but explaining he has been suffering from the gout; assuring her that "I will always be happy to serve you when it is in my Power...that I shall always do you that Justice which your proper & loyal conduct during my Command at Rhode Island enables you to expect from me. I sincerely wish His Majesty's Ministers were but half as much inclined to do you Justice as I am. Allow me to add, Madam, that not only Publick Justice, but also Personal Regard will always incline me to render you every Service..."