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Autograph letter signed : Colchester, to [Sir John] Murray, 1806 July 18.

BIB_ID
383177
Accession number
MA 1260.26
Creator
Carey, Thomas, active 1806-1808.
Display Date
1806 July 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Volume 3 (MA 1260) 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 MA 1260 for more information.
Written as military secretary for John Pitt, Earl of Chatham.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Telling him to send an officer to Chelmsford "to ascertain if any men of the 2nd Battalion are induced to volunteer into that Corps."