BIB_ID
128756
Accession number
MA 1262.22
Creator
Baynes, Edward, 1768-1829.
Display Date
1807 June 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "His Excellency - Lieu't General Don / &c &c &c."
Endorsed.
This letter was enclosed in a letter from Sir George Don to Sir James Pulteney dated June 15, 1807 (MA 1262.21).
Volume 5 (MA 1262) 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 1262.1-75).
Endorsed.
This letter was enclosed in a letter from Sir George Don to Sir James Pulteney dated June 15, 1807 (MA 1262.21).
Volume 5 (MA 1262) 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 1262.1-75).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Enclosing the "return of the accoutrements of the 2nd Batt'n 17th Reg't left in charge of this [4th Garrison] Battalion - which have been carefully packed up ever since the arrival of our own. I have never received from the 18th Reg't any Return or Explanation relative to their Great Coats which the men continue to wear. They are in general in a very bad, shattered state : & from that I can collect from the report of the men themselves, many of the Great Coats have been upwards of three years in use- & the whole have served nearly that period."
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