BIB_ID
132231
Accession number
MA 22815
Creator
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
Display Date
Stirling, Scotland, year unknown July 27.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 32.2 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Based on the contents of the letter, Dundas's correspondent may have been Sir George Yonge, who served as Secretary at War in the 1780s and 1790s.
Signed "Henry Dundas," suggesting that the letter was written before he was elevated to the peerage in 1802.
Signed "Henry Dundas," suggesting that the letter was written before he was elevated to the peerage in 1802.
Summary
Urging that Mr. Baillie's son, whose first name he does not know, be given an ensigncy immediately; explaining "It is most essential in order to counteract a Plot which I know is going on in a Northern district of [Burghs?] at next Michaelmas when the Magistrates are chosen;" promising to write back as soon as he learns the son's name.
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