BIB_ID
384176
Accession number
MA 1262.50
Creator
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
Display Date
[1784?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "William Pulteney Esq / Bath House."
The letter is not dated, however the publication to which Dundas refers and quotes from was published in several editions in London in late 1783 and 1784.
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).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
The letter is not dated, however the publication to which Dundas refers and quotes from was published in several editions in London in late 1783 and 1784.
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).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning Pulteney's comments in his recent publication ["The Effects to be Expected from the East India Bill upon the Constitution of Great Britain if Passed into a Law" by William Pulteney]; quoting from page 43 from the passage related to patronage; asking if he would "reconsider the Provisions of that bill and point out to me what additional Patronage it gives to the supreme Government in India more than it at present possesses;" expressing his desire for "the bill alluded to be perfectly understood by the Publick, in which respect I am apt to think the Paragraph of your Tract to which I allude may be apt in some degree to lead into misconceptions of my Ideas, especially considering the Pains which have been taken by others industriously to create such misconceptions."
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