BIB_ID
383678
Accession number
MA 1261.7
Creator
Cochrane, Alexander Forrester Inglis, Sir, 1758-1832.
Display Date
1808 Nov. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Volume 4 (MA 1261) 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 MA 1261 for more information.
Written on Cochrane's ship, the Belleisle, probably somewhere in the West Indies. His place of writing is illegible but appears to read "P Leilem."
Written on Cochrane's ship, the Belleisle, probably somewhere in the West Indies. His place of writing is illegible but appears to read "P Leilem."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the progress of the war in the West Indies.
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