BIB_ID
383764
Accession number
MA 1261.32
Creator
Craufurd, Lieut. Gen. (Charles Gregan), 1761-1821.
Display Date
[17]97 Oct. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.4 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
Explaining that he has not written in a long time because of "the constant & rapid succession of surgical operations that [he has] been obliged to undergo" after he fell off his horse when he was wounded.
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