BIB_ID
137184
Accession number
MA 1272.38
Creator
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Display Date
"Tuesday" 1762 Mar. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "William Johnstoune Esq'r / Advocate / 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).
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
Delivering this letter to him by Mr. Trail "who has been sent in from the College to consult your sage headpiece with regard to a point of Law...He has also directions to take a private advice from you with regard to a point which is not to be communicated to any other Person whatever. You will find him an excessive clever fellow, I therefor recommend him to you as an acquaintance as well as a client."
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