BIB_ID
383850
Accession number
MA 1262.14
Creator
Don, George, Sir, 1756-1832.
Display Date
1803 Dec. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lieut General / Sir James Pulteney Bart / Park Lane / London." The letter originally addressed to "East Bourne / Sussex" but that has been crossed through.
Endorsed.
Volume 5 (MA 1262) 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 more information (MA 1262.1-75).
Endorsed.
Volume 5 (MA 1262) 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 more information (MA 1262.1-75).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Replying that he does have two vacant Ensigncies in the Royal Lancashire; adding that he has applied to Lord Douglas for one of them for his friend; enclosing the reply from Lord Douglas (MA 1262.15).
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