BIB_ID
189597
Accession number
MA 9323
Creator
Cathcart, Charles Murray Cathcart, Earl, 1783-1859.
Display Date
1837 February 17.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.1 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
The place of writing is given as "5 Carlton Place / Edinburgh."
Cathcart refers to himself as "Lord Greenock" which was his title between 1807 and 1843.
The letter is addressed to: "Mr Moore / (late Bicknell & Moore) / Hatters & Army Accoutrement Makers / Corner of Old Bond Street / London." The London Post Office Directory for 1843 identifies a James Moore operating a shop with this title at this address.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume II.
The place of writing is given as "5 Carlton Place / Edinburgh."
Cathcart refers to himself as "Lord Greenock" which was his title between 1807 and 1843.
The letter is addressed to: "Mr Moore / (late Bicknell & Moore) / Hatters & Army Accoutrement Makers / Corner of Old Bond Street / London." The London Post Office Directory for 1843 identifies a James Moore operating a shop with this title at this address.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume II.
Summary
Requesting that Moore send him a "General Officers Hat and Feather, also a General's regulation Sword and Sword Belt"; adding "it is of consequence that there should be no delay as Lord Greenock has been appointed to the Command in Scotland and is therefore in immediate want of these articles."
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