BIB_ID
136501
Accession number
MA 1272.20
Display Date
1794 Oct. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.0 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
Relating news of Lt. Colonel Wemyss of the Royal Irish Regiment dated from Florence on the 24th of September; saying "he informs us that he caught the Fever at Calvi & just escaped on board of Ship time enough to save his life - he tells us that their miseries have been extreme, and that such general & sudden sickness was never (he believes) experienced in an army before - in ten days time out of upwards of 400 men, he had not more than 50 fit for duty. The regiment is still at Calvi; the Colonel left it on the 12th of August - The Serg't Major & Qu'Mr Serjeant are both dead and there were only four Officers fit for duty when he left the Regiment - he desired us to tell you with his best Compliments that no Regiment in the service could behave better and that they have added to that honor and character which he hopes they will ever support;" relating the name of someone the Colonel would like appointed as Quarter-Master; adding that the Colonel "desires us to inform you that it is his intention to join the Regiment at Corsica - the moment his health will permit.".
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