Address panel with traces of a seal "Right Hon'ble The Secretary at War."
Sir James Pulteney served as Secretary at War from 1807-1809.
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).
Inquiring about how he is to pay for the clothing for the supernumeraries; explaining that "...it cannot be supposed I can cloth them out of my own Pocket & I foresee I am likely to have a considerable [illegible] of Recruits, which I shall be under the necessity of rejecting unless some mode is pointed out for their being Clothed by Government;" adding that he was never given the opportunity to add a 2nd Battalion.