BIB_ID
384011
Accession number
MA 1262.36
Creator
Douglas, Robert, Lt. Col., -1828.
Display Date
1804 May 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
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).
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
Concerning the issue of unlimited service as it relates to his Battalion; asking if the uniforms for his Sergeant Major and Quarter Master Sergeant could have buttons similar to those of the Officers "except being plated instead of Gilt."
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