BIB_ID
137181
Accession number
MA 1272.39
Creator
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Display Date
Monday [1752-1763 Mar./Apr.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 17.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "William Johnstoune Esq'r / Advocate / at his [house] on the Castle Hill / Edinburgh."
Place of writing from the postmark.
The letter is undated; the date range provided in this record is from that given in the published letter cited below.
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).
Place of writing from the postmark.
The letter is undated; the date range provided in this record is from that given in the published letter cited below.
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 his visit; expressing his joy that "you are likely to be soon here. The sooner you come and the longer you stay the better. This week, however, is the sacrament week, so that as a friend I would advise you to keep clear of it, as I shall be almost constantly in the way of my Duty. This day se'nnight is a good travelling day and will bring you here exactly upon the conclusion of our holidays when you will find everything ten times more joyful on account of the melancholy of the foregoing week. I shall expect a fortnight of you at least."
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