BIB_ID
206383
Accession number
MA 1261.8
Creator
Cochrane, John, 1750-1801.
Display Date
1778 Oct. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "William Pulteney Esqr. MP / at Balls / near Hertford."
Docketed.
Volume 4 (MA 1261) 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 MA 1261 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Volume 4 (MA 1261) 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 MA 1261 for more information.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Enclosing a list of seamen of Denmark and Norway, given him by Count Moltke; remarking that there is "no certain news in town concerning either [Augustus] Keppel or Lord [Richard] Howe"; discussing reports on the relations between [Benjamin] Franklin and the French.
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