BIB_ID
383909
Accession number
MA 1262.20
Creator
Don, George, Sir, 1756-1832.
Display Date
1807 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
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).
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
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
Congratulating him on his appointment as Secretary at War; commenting on the intention "to send the whole or part of the King's German Legion to Stralsund : I am afraid no good can result from this measure because I know the King of Sweden last year could never bring into the field more than 7000 men, & by my letters from the Continent this winter, I have no reason whatever to believe that at present he can bring a larger force to act offensively therefore the most that can be expected from him, even with the Infantry of Legion, is the defence of Stralsund - In the event of my being ordered on this unpleasant Service, do you think there is a possibility of keeping the Command here open for me - The Government of this Island answers my purpose in every respect & both for military and private reasons, I should be sorry indeed to lose it. - I have lately been very unwell, and obliged to go into the Country for a change of air. - poor Marie is still in dreadful distress & at this moment I should be very sorry to leave her."
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