Record ID:
132235
Accession number:
MA 1269.24
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes:
Address panel with traces of a seal "In His Majestys Service / To His Excellency / Sir Jas Pulteney Bart / &c &c &c / Lisbon."
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).
Summary:
Informing him that the Flora is unable to accept additional troops as "the [HMS] Constance parts Company at Gibraltar & the Flora in so leaky a State as not to be able to birth her Ships Company at Sea."
Provenance:
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
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