BIB_ID
380594
Accession number
MA 487.10
Creator
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.
Display Date
1772 Oct. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmarks to" William Pulteney Esq're / M.P at Balls by / Hertford."
Endorsed.
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.
Endorsed.
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.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Enclosing a letter from Mr. Spring; discussing the added expense of "mahoggany Sashes & hand Raills" but cautioning that he does not know if there is any Honduran mahogany on hand in Bath.
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