BIB_ID
380465
Accession number
MA 487.1-46
Display Date
1764-1840.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (46 items), bound ; various sizes
Notes
Volume 1 (MA 487) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries, and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author. 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
A collection of 46 letters primarily to Sir James Pulteney arranged alphabetically including four letters from Sir Ralph Abercromby, 6 letters from Robert Adam, 6 letters from the Earl of Ancram and 2 letters from the Countess Henrietta Kerr Ancram, 10 letters from Sir Robert Arbuthnot and 3 letters from William Armstrong.
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