BIB_ID
125702
Accession number
MA 1271.10
Creator
Nesbitt, Colebrook, Colonel, 1755-1798.
Display Date
1796 Dec. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
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).
Written in the third person.
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).
Written in the third person.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Returning "the proposals for raising a corps on the Continent;" informing him he has marked "with a pencil the Parts to which he thinks objection will be made - as not meeting the Intentions of Government or as being contrary to what has been observed with Regard to other Corps in formation;" adding that if the proposals were to be accepted he would require more detail and stating "the very great difficulty which at present attends the recruiting service on the Continent, & the heavy Expence which it subjects all the Persons to [sic] who undertake it with the chance of failing, as so many have done, in the Enterprise."
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