BIB_ID
383483
Accession number
MA 297.45
Creator
Bruce, Thomas, 1738-1797.
Display Date
1797 Apr. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.5 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
Ordering him per "the reasons assigned in the Enclosed Extract of General Sir Charles Grey's letter of yesterday's date, I beg you will give orders to have all the Huts immediately pulled down and to prevent others being erected in future; " adding an autograph postscript, signed with initials, approving of his decision to direct "the Detachment to remain at Etham as probably the Officers will be ordered to assemble soon."
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