BIB_ID
132603
Accession number
MA 1268.47
Creator
Macpherson, John, Sir, 1745-1821.
Display Date
1803 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
Volume 11 (MA 1268) 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 1268.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Commenting on recent political publications which he believes serve no purpose other than to aid the enemy; saying he continues to preach his "old Doctrine of an union of Parties...Ideas which (entre nous) were that Peace might have been preserved had any Party espoused its cause. But truly what was every Party's Business in this grand affair proved in the End to be no Party's : Few knew how it was got, and all Parties will have to pay in [illegible] and Person before all is regained. Still I wish to avoid all Retrospect; and we shall gain an Inestimable Peace when we are more of a military nation & upon the Extended Pevensey Legion Plan."
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