BIB_ID
380908
Accession number
MA 487.38
Creator
Arbuthnot, Robert, 1760-1809.
Display Date
1809 Jan. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
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
Being a copy, in an unknown hand, of the previous letter in this collection (MA 487.37) expressing his disappointment at finding that city so ill-prepared for a French invasion.
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