BIB_ID
131639
Accession number
MA 1272.22
Creator
Rutherfurd, John, 1748-1834.
Display Date
1804 Jan. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Sir James Pulteney Bart. / East Bourne / Sussex."
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Thanking him for his help in securing a position for a young man in the Middlesex Militia; commenting on Napoleon saying "I agree very much with you, in your observations on Buonaparte - but lean much to the opinion that He will not attempt Great Britain, except as a diversion to his great attempt on Ireland;" discussing the need for regulation of the Volunteers; asking if he would consider supporting "some plan for the better regulation of the Volunteers - a Code - on the principle of the Mutiny Bill, but so modified as to be adapted to Volunteers, should be adopted - All those who do not choose to conform to it, to be at liberty to resign - It should be made pretty stiff, so as to get rid of one third of them - the remaining two thirds might then be made something of - You know my opinion of Volunteering - The four months experiences I have had, has not altered it - tho' I can assure you, my Corps is regularly reported as a Crack one of the sort - but then, God help us, it is of the sort, & there is no curing, what is bred in the bone; asking him to let him know when he is in Town and to write "when you think any thing important likely to happen."
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