BIB_ID
383760
Accession number
MA 1261.31
Creator
Craufurd, Lieut. Gen. (Charles Gregan), 1761-1821.
Display Date
[17]96 Feb. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.3 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 was going to get married "as an affair of honour," but now he has "found means to break off the business completely, without having any thing to reproach [him]self with"; remarking that the girl's "conduct during [his] stay in England last winter was ... so exceptionable in appearance, that [he was] justified in renouncing [his] engagement"; discussing military appointments and campaigns.
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