BIB_ID
126564
Accession number
MA 1270.47
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
[1807?] Nov. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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).
Written in the third person; originally written as Sir James Pulteney but his name has been crossed through and above it "The Sec'y at War."
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).
Written in the third person; originally written as Sir James Pulteney but his name has been crossed through and above it "The Sec'y at War."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Regretting that he is unable to combine the Barracks of Kew and Hampton Court; explaining that the Lords of Treasury "would not consent to the augmentation of expence;" adding that, "in compliance with His Royal Highness's wishes" he will recommend Lieutenant Colonel Cowell for the Barrackmastership at Hampton Court.
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