BIB_ID
136131
Accession number
MA 1272.5
Creator
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806.
Display Date
1801 Oct. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the need for men to help bring in the harvest; requesting his help in granting permission for men of the Sussex Regiment "to remain in this neighbourhood to assist the Farmers in getting in their Harvest and other Purposes of agriculture;" enclosing a letter from the Duke of York acknowledging the need for relief;" adding"...a further Relief of the great Distress this Part of the Country is in for want of Labourers by placing a Part of the Sussex Militia at Arundel. I do not however understand that such arrangement is immediately to take Place and the Month allow'd is on the eve of expiring. Under these circumstances the serious want of hands for the Purposes of agriculture, and that since the Ratification of the Preliminaries of Peace, these men might perhaps be spared from their Regiment without much Inconvenience."
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