BIB_ID
383476
Accession number
MA 297.42
Creator
Bruce, Thomas, 1738-1797.
Display Date
"Friday" [1797 Sept. 8].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmark to "Major General / Sir James Pulteney Bar't. M.P. / &c &c &c / Ashford."
The endorsement dates the letter to September 8 and the author dates it simply as "Friday." September 8 fell on a Friday in 1797, the year in which all of the letters in this volume from General Bruce to Sir James Pulteney were written.
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).
The endorsement dates the letter to September 8 and the author dates it simply as "Friday." September 8 fell on a Friday in 1797, the year in which all of the letters in this volume from General Bruce to Sir James Pulteney were written.
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
Informing him that Sir Charles Grey would like him to know that Henry Dundas would like to visit Artillery practice at Hythe on Monday.
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