BIB_ID
383429
Accession number
MA 297.31
Creator
Brownrigg, Robert.
Display Date
1797 Jan. 23
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.8 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
Replying to his letter and informing him that it went before the Duke of York and the Duke "directs me to assure you that He shall be glad to attend to Major Hepburne's claims for Promotion whenever he has a favourable opportunity of so doing - The Lieut Colonelcies that have been lately Vacant in Regiments in the West Indies, have all been fill'd up in consequence of the recommendation of the Commander in Chief on the Spot."
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