BIB_ID
384117
Accession number
MA 1263.1-56
Display Date
1767 Jan. 30-1814 July 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (56 items), bound ; size varies
Notes
Volume 6 (MA 1263) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family, and distinguished contemporaries, "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries, and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (MA 487, MA 297, and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see MA 1263.1-56 for more details.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 56 letters arranged alphabetically including an autograph letter signed from Thomas Elrington to an unidentified recipient (MA 1263.1); an autograph letter signed from Francis Wemyss Charteris, Lord Elcho, to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.2); two autograph letters signed from John Scott, Earl of Eldon, to an unidentified man (MA 1263.3-4) and one autograph letter signed to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.5); an autograph letter signed from Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin, to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.6); an autograph letter signed from William Eliot, Earl of St. Germans, to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.7); two autograph letters signed from Richard England to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.8-9); a letter signed by M. Essen to an unidentified recipient (MA 1263.10); an autograph letter signed from Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, to an unidentified recipient (MA 1263.11); an autograph letter signed by T. Fachell to an unidentified recipient (MA 1263.12); two autograph letters signed by George Evelyn Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, to an unidentified man (MA 1263.13-14); an autograph letter signed by Elizabeth Evelyn Fawcett to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.15); a copy of a letter from Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, to Lord Chatham (MA 1263.16); seven autograph letters signed from Adam Ferguson to an unidentified man and to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.17-19, 21-22, and 28-29); four autograph letters from Sir Adam Fergusson to Sir William Pulteney and two documents signed by Fergusson (MA 1263.20, 23-27); an autograph letter signed from Arthur James Plunkett, Earl of Fingall, to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.30); three autograph letters signed from Charles, Lord Fitzroy, to Major General Campbell (MA 1263.31-33); an autograph letter signed from Col. Floyd to an unidentified general (MA 1263.34); two autograph letters signed from Thomas Forrest to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.35-36); an autograph letter signed from G. Forster to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.37); two autograph letters signed from Charles James Fox to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.38-39); a letter signed from Henry Edward Fox to Messrs. Ross & Ogilvie (MA 1263.40); an autograph letter signed from John Hookham Frere to an unidentified man (MA 1263.41); an autograph letter signed from Henry Gage, Viscount Gage, to Lt. Col. Blair (MA 1263.42); an autograph letter signed from Thomas Gainsborough to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.43); two autograph letters signed from Alexander Stewart, Earl of Galloway, to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.44-45); an autograph letter signed from John Stewart, Earl of Galloway, to Sir William Pulteney (MA 1263.46); an autograph letter signed from George IV to Sir James Pulteney (MA 1263.47); and nine autograph letters signed from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, to an unidentified man, Sir James Pulteney, and Nathaniel William Massey, Baron Clarina (MA 1263.48-56). The letters are described in individual records; see MA 1263.1-56 for details.
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