BIB_ID
384054
Accession number
MA 1262.38
Creator
Douglas, Robert, Lt. Col., -1828.
Display Date
1804 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.7 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
Relating news of promotions; expressing his concern about the inability to discharge "unserviceable men;" enclosing a letter (MA 1262.37) which expresses his concern for and asks for his consideration in the matter of "the removal of my Non Commissioned Officers; because I have not now any men fit to replace them; and I feel that the drafting them would be the ruin of the Corps, and no effort of zeal could possibly prevent it."
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