BIB_ID
211954
Accession number
MA 487.16
Creator
Addington, John Hiley, 1759-1818.
Display Date
1809 Mar. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 487.1-46).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Asking for a summary, on one sheet, of the "Orders that we have received from various Public Offices, and of all the Regulations that have been circulated during the last three months; declining to comply with his request for a memorandum of the common issues of agreement with the Local Militia Corps; suggesting that Commanding Officers in the Local Militia be supplied with duck trousers instead of shoes which would save the government "a shilling per man" and be more acceptable.
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