BIB_ID
383024
Accession number
MA 297.9
Creator
Beresford, George Thomas, Lord, 1781-1839.
Display Date
1802 Apr. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.0 cm
Notes
Volume 2 (MA 297) 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 297.1-65).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Reiterating his desire for a better position; saying "...under the circumstances of the Duke of York's very kind intentions towards me, I cannot give up my claim to any situation in which it may please His Royal Highness to place me nor can I be indifferent to an object which is and must appear to being desirable as the obtaining rank in my profession."
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