BIB_ID
380608
Accession number
MA 487.12
Creator
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.
Display Date
1779 Jan. 15.
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 to" William Pulteney Esq're / Bath House."
Endorsed "R. Adams / as to Rob't Sands to / succeed Surveyor of Sewers."
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 "R. Adams / as to Rob't Sands to / succeed Surveyor of Sewers."
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
Recommending Robert Sands to succeed Mr. Rhodes as Commissioner of Sewers.
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