BIB_ID
126292
Accession number
MA 1270.35
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
1794 Apr. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Symes was serving as Quarter Master General under Sir Charles Grey.
Volume 13 (MA 1270) 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 1270.1-50).
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Symes was serving as Quarter Master General under Sir Charles Grey.
Volume 13 (MA 1270) 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 1270.1-50).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Apologizing for encroaching on his time but asking for special consideration for Lieutenant Dana who is "a relation of mine & I am from another connexion with him extremely desirous that he should get forward in his profession as his Father has a large Family with a small fortune, it will be a great object to get him & should the opportunity offer the Captain Lieutenancy of the Company without purchase. I therefore request your good offices & beg that you would have the goodness to solicit Sir Charles Grey upon my part in case of a vacancy in the Regiment to permit Dana to succeed;" informing him of his upcoming marriage; saying "I have been under a necessity of giving up my share of the glories of this Campaign. I hope however that it will bring no imputation upon my Courage to have avoided fighting this year, having determined upon an undertaking which has been reckoned by all wise men to be the more desperate of the two. My opponent upon this occasion is to be a Lady whose name you may be acquainted with, Lady Bath & tho' she is neither black nor possessed of wooly hair which I presume you look upon to be the great requisites of Beauty, I hope to find with her some consolation for what the circumstances have for the present obliged me to relinquish;" asking again for special consideration for Mr. Dana.
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