BIB_ID
126557
Accession number
MA 1270.39
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
[1792] Sept. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
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
Reporting on the troop positions and movements surrounding Verdun; saying "...I have it not in my Power to give you any certain account of the immediate object of this march. It was kept very secret, only ordered late in the evening & then with every precaution to conceal the route. The object of the Campaign is undoubtedly to approach to Paris;" adding that the Hessians had arrived and were occupying ground that the French had occupied before their surrender at Verdun.
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