BIB_ID
380776
Accession number
MA 487.29
Creator
Anstruther, Robert, 1768-1809.
Display Date
1808 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal "Private / Sir Ja. Pulteney / &c &c &c."
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).
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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing his concerns about negotiations with the French, "...the difficulty of which consists in the arrangements respecting the Russian Ships. My humble opinion was that we should have refused from the first to treat on that point with any person but [illegible] and should not have stuck at trifles with him. Moore is expected every hour (He is in the Bay) and the result will very probably be the breaking off the negociation. The enemy are fortifying themselves at Cabaça but it is impossible they can make any thing of it. It is most unfortunate we did not pursue them on the 21st - they must have laid down their arms next day: no beating was ever more complete."
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