BIB_ID
129931
Accession number
MA 1271.39
Creator
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812.
Display Date
1807 Oct. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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).
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
Approving his "Experiment being made - But I hope when you make it you will let the Clerks know that if the Experiment fails, & there shall appear to be a necessity for an increased number of Clerks they must not expect that the increased Salaries, are to continue, with the increased numbers - This Suggestion may give a better Chance for a fair trial of yr Experiment."
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