BIB_ID
382783
Accession number
MA 1260.1-47
Display Date
1781 Jan. 23-1813 Aug. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (47 items), bound ; size varies
Notes
Volume 3 (MA 1260) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family, and distinguished contemporaries, "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries, and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (MA 487, MA 297, and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1260.1-47).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 47 letters arranged alphabetically including five letters from Henry Cadogan to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.1-5); nine letters from Sir Harry Calvert to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.6-14); a copy of a portion of a letter from Robert Jackson to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.15); a letter from the Duke of Cambridge to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.16); a letter from Robert Campbell to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.17); three letters from George Canning to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.18-20); fifteen letters from Thomas Carey, fourteen to Sir John Murray and one to Major Addison (MA 1260.21-35); two letters from J. Carruthers to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.36-37); two letters from Elizabeth Carter to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1260.38-39); a letter from Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.40); a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Catinelli to Sir John Murray[?] (MA 1260.41); two letters from Richard Ford William Lambart, Earl of Cavan, to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1260.42-43); a letter from George Chalmers to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1260.44); an extract of a letter to Henry Dundas by an unknown writer (MA 1260.45); a letter from Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to an unidentified man (MA 1260.46); and a letter from Thomas Pelham, Earl of Chichester, to an unidentified man (MA 1260.47). The letters are described in individual records; see MA 1260.1-47 for details.
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