BIB_ID
129632
Accession number
MA 1271.34
Creator
Parkhurst, Charles, active 1796-1798.
Display Date
1796 Mar. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the impossibility of raising troops on the Continent; saying he is unable "to hesitate one moment giving a decided answer as to the Impossibility of furnishing a Corps upon the specified conditions by the 1st of July next. I am firmly of opinion no Man breathing, if he undertook could accomplish it. The particular Facility I had of levying Men consisted very principally in the Proviso that they should be for a limited Service and for this I could have produced some very excellent Soldiers - However as circumstances are, I owe too much to you and Lord Malmesbury to accept of what I am not sure of fulfilling;" declining to make a proposal under the specified conditions.
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