BIB_ID
383480
Accession number
MA 297.43
Creator
Bruce, Thomas, 1738-1797.
Display Date
1797 Mar. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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).
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
Thanking him for the return of Camp Equipage; saying "I suppose you have fixt, tho perhaps secretly, the number and names of Waggons to attend to each Regiment;" requesting that the General Monthly Return be sent by the first of the month; adding "The alteration you mention about the Port will be of great advantage, but as the Inhabitants are most interested the proposal should original with them, and you can, in the name of Government, second it to the Port Office..
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