BIB_ID
383495
Accession number
MA 297.46
Creator
Bruce, Thomas, 1738-1797.
Display Date
1797 Aug. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.6 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
Enclosing orders from Sir Charles Grey and requesting "that you will give such Orders as you may think necessary to promote alertness, without giving Alarm;" adding, in a postscript, a copy of the text of the letter from Sir Charles Grey to General Bruce saying "...the Dutch Fleet had Sailed on the 30th in't - & it is supposed that Adm'l Duncan, who was not off the Texel on the first, has proceeded after them."
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