BIB_ID
137182
Accession number
MA 1272.37
Creator
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Display Date
1758 Aug. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
A footnote to the published letter (see citation below) suggests that the conversation concerning money to be raised may refer to the establishment of the Glasgow Academy of Art.
Address panel with traces of a seal to "William Johnstoune Esq'r / Advocate / at his house over against / Grays Cliff / Edinburgh."
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).
Address panel with traces of a seal to "William Johnstoune Esq'r / Advocate / at his house over against / Grays Cliff / Edinburgh."
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
Thanking him for mentioning him to Mr. Elliot; wishing he could see Mr. Elliot "but have been looking in the map and find Minto above three score mortal miles from Glasgow the nearest way that I can go to it. This abates my ardor a good deal. However, I shall take the affair ad avisandum;" enclosing a letter he received from Captain Gordon and discussing a sum of money Captain Gordon has agreed to give; asking him to show the letter to John Hume and James Russel "and let me nkow by next post if possible what sum will be wanted from him."
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