BIB_ID
136708
Accession number
MA 1274.7
Creator
Warren, John Borlase, Sir, 1753-1822.
Display Date
[1800 Sept.?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
The letter is undated but his letter dated September 9, 1800 from Vigo Bay (MA 1274.10) also concerns orders for the Milbrook to deliver forage.
This letter refers to the HMS Milbrook, a schooner of experimental design by Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect and brother of Jeremy Bentham.
Volume 17 (MA 1274) 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 1274.1-74).
This letter refers to the HMS Milbrook, a schooner of experimental design by Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect and brother of Jeremy Bentham.
Volume 17 (MA 1274) 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 1274.1-74).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning a request for forage for the horse ships; advising him that orders have been given for the necessary provisions to be delivered to the Milbrook Schooner and that the ship will proceed as he has directed; informing him that he expects to sail again as soon as the weather will allow.
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