BIB_ID
132329
Accession number
MA 1269.22
Creator
Merry, William, 1762-1855.
Display Date
1809 Nov. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.6 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
Concerning a rule regarding the appointment of Regimental Paymasters; saying 'Lord Palmerston does not seem disposed to deviate from the Rule which does not admit of Agents' Clerks being knowingly appointed Regimental Paymasters;" adding that it appears that more than a dozen have been appointed and an enquiry is underway and "whether the result will be such as to induce Lord Palmerston to change his opinion cannot now be known. If circumstances will permit I shall be most happy in accepting your obliging invitation at such time as you shall mention."
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