BIB_ID
383917
Accession number
MA 1261.44
Creator
Craufurd, Robert, 1764-1812.
Display Date
1803 Oct. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Lt. Gen. Sir Jas. Pulteney Bt. / Hastings / Sussex"; also with date and place of writing on address panel.
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.
With postmark and seal.
Written from 35 Curzon Street.
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.
With postmark and seal.
Written from 35 Curzon Street.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Writing, "I beg to remind you of the promise you made me when you were last in town"; discussing the military position he would like to hold in the coming campaign; stressing that he would do a good job commanding "some active volunteers."
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