BIB_ID
137286
Accession number
MA 1272.43
Creator
Smythe, Robert, 1778-1847.
Display Date
1799 July 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Sir James Pulteney Bart / M.P. / 32 Bruton Street / London."
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
Reporting on their arrival and the barracks in which they are camped; reporting that Lord St. Vincent returned home and Lord Keith was now commanding the fleet; reporting on the activities of Lord Keith's fleet; relating his impressions of the harbor and what he saw on his walk into the countryside; commenting at length on the unusual dancing in the streets he watched at a religious festival.
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