BIB_ID
132233
Accession number
MA 1269.41
Creator
Molesworth, William John, 1763-1815.
Display Date
1809 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Volume 12 (MA 1269) 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 1269.1-63).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing his frustration and asking for assistance related to a request for "an exchange with the line;" saying that he assumes from lack of other information that he would be returning to Ceylon, but explaining that he cannot afford the cost of the voyage and would require financial assistance; adding that has he had arranged everything to go to America he would expect to return to Ceylon on the same terms.
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