BIB_ID
383738
Accession number
MA 1261.30
Creator
Craufurd, Lieut. Gen. (Charles Gregan), 1761-1821.
Display Date
1794 Oct. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 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.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Telling him that he has been in England for three weeks because of his health; reporting that he wishes Sir James Pulteney could be back in his old position because he doesn't like his replacement; discussing military movements in the Low Countries; joking about Pulteney's marriage to a rich heiress: "I suppose you will give pretty good dinners now -- your Brother and I have already laid plans to eat you out of house and home, and to kill all your Game."
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