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Collection of autograph letters signed : location varies, primarily to Sir James Pulteney, 1768-1809.

BIB_ID
383661
Accession number
MA 1261.1-50
Display Date
1768-1809.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (50 items), bound ; size varies
Notes
Volume 4 (MA 1261) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family, and distinguished contemporaries, "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries, and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (MA 487, MA 297, and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see MA 1261.1-50 for more details.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 50 letters arranged alphabetically including an autograph letter signed from the Earl of Clanricarde to an unidentified man (MA 1261.1); two letters signed from Henry Mordaunt Clavering to Sir James Pulteney and a related printed item, Observations on General Clavering's Case (MA 1261.2-4); three autograph letters signed from Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.5-7); an autograph letter signed from John Cochrane to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1261.8); an autograph letter signed from Teesdale Cockell to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.9); nine autograph letters signed from George Colman to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1261.10-18); a letter signed from Archibald Colquhoun to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.19); an autograph letter signed from George Weir to Archibald Colquhoun (MA 1261.20); an autograph letter signed from Sir Charles Colville to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.21); two autograph letters signed from William Conolly to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.22-23); two autograph letters signed from Sir Eyre Coote to an unidentified man and to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.24-25); an autograph letter signed from Edward Cooke to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.26); nine autograph letters signed from Charles Gregan Craufurd to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.27-34); one autograph letter signed from Quintin Craufurd to Pierre François Théophile Jarry (MA 1261.35); nine autograph letters signed from Robert Craufurd to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.36-44); two letters from an unidentified writer to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.45-46); an autograph letter signed from Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1261.47); an autograph letter signed from R. Askew to Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (MA 1261.48); an autograph letter signed from James Currie to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1261.49); and an autograph letter signed from David Imrie to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1261.50). The letters are described in individual records; see MA 1261.1-50 for details.