BIB_ID
380578
Accession number
MA 487.8
Creator
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.
Display Date
1771 June 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to" William Pulteney Esq're / at Balls near / Hertford."
Robert Erskine, a Scottish inventor and engineer, would later be named by George Washington as the "Geographer & Surveyor General of the Continental Army."
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).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
William Pulteney had a plan for a new city of Bath, adjacent to the historic city.
Robert Erskine, a Scottish inventor and engineer, would later be named by George Washington as the "Geographer & Surveyor General of the Continental Army."
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).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
William Pulteney had a plan for a new city of Bath, adjacent to the historic city.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him that the offer made on his behalf to Sir John Chetwynd of £2300 for his house and grounds was rejected and that Chetwynd would take no less than £2500; adding that he believed his asking price was more than its value and therefore he did not reply to the counter offer; relating a conversation he had with [Robert] Erskine on his recent time in Scotland "where he was for many months, as he informed me instructing himself in the Ironworks in order to go to America as conductor of a great Ironworks....I did not mention your name to him only told him that if his Scheme misgave I had a proposal to make to him in another way...;" assuring him that he is "doing everything in my power to forward the new City of Bath But such an audacious [illegible] requires Coolness & deliberation & I vow I have not enjoyed one Single moments repose since I had the Hon'r of Seeing you in town. You would think that the Ideas of Extravagance would keep people quiet, but insted of Idea I believe it will be absolutely necessary to make it real in order to get a little tranquillity & Ease."
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