BIB_ID
384006
Accession number
MA 1262.33
Creator
Douglas, Robert, Lt. Col., -1828.
Display Date
1804 Apr. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lieu't Gen'l Sir James Pulteney B't / M.P. / &c &c &c / East Bourne / Sussex." The letters was originally address to Sir James Pulteney at Park Lane, London but that address 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).
With a return of the "State of the 2nd Battalion of His Majesty's 18th Royal Regiment of Ireland."
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).
With a return of the "State of the 2nd Battalion of His Majesty's 18th Royal Regiment of Ireland."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Requesting permission to recruit from the "2nd Regiment of Reserve Command by the Earl of Roden" which had recently arrived at Stirling Castle; explaining that he would like to recruit from it "before the Recruiting parties of the Army are let loose upon it..."
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