Autograph letter signed : Weymouth, to Sir James Pulteney, 1807 Dec. 22.

Record ID: 
136291
Accession number: 
MA 1272.11
Author: 
Robilliard, Nicholas, active 1807.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description: 
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "The Right Honorable Sir James Pulteney Bart / Secretary at War / &c &c &c London."
Endorsed.
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).

Summary: 

Enclosing an extract from a letter from his brother who is serving on the HMS Belleisle dated Tortola, 26 October 1807, "in case it should contain any information not before to your knowledge, for I do not know by the Post mark wether it is come by a Packet or running Ship;" asking if he would get his brother on the promotions list submitted to the Admiralty."

Provenance: 
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.