BIB_ID
127177
Accession number
MA 1271.58
Creator
Pym, William, 1772-1861.
Display Date
1809 Feb. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Sir William Pym is credited with being the first to accurately describe the character of Yellow Fever.
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 from 86 Norton Street.
Sir William Pym is credited with being the first to accurately describe the character of Yellow Fever.
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 from 86 Norton Street.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the mortality rates in the West Indies in the 18th Regiment; acknowledging that from his recent letter "the particulars you mention respecting the 18th Reg't do certainly appear strong arguments against my opinion, particularly if the mortality has prevail'd among the men who have been four years in Jamaica, but from my experience of the West India fever I cannot help thinking that if any men have been sent from England to join the Reg't within the last two tears, that the Disease has prevail'd almost entirely among them. I have written to Maj'r Bird commanding at Gloucester requesting him to furnish me with the number and if possible the Names of Men sent to the west Indies within the last two years, as a lot of 118 Names of men who died during the months of October & November last is in possession of the Surgeon General. If Maj'r Bird cannot furnish me with the Names, the importance of the question will I trust plead an excuse for my requesting you to have the goodness to procure for me, from the Depot at the Isle of Wight, a List of the men sent from thence, to join the 18th Reg't at Jamaica."
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