BIB_ID
384206
Accession number
MA 1262.52
Creator
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
Display Date
1784 Oct. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "William Pulteney Esq / Sudbro by / Thrapston / Northampsh."
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.
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
Replying to his letter and saying there was no need to offer any explanation relative to Governor Ferguson; relating that the Board "...sat till one in the morning. We returned our first set of Dispatches to the India Directive. I shall not pretend to determine whether our Conclusions are right or wrong, but I am positive upon all the PoInts which we had occasion to decide We have gone to the bottom of the Subject...You may perhaps think me too sanguine, but I am positive that if I have nothing to flight against but the conceptions of India at home and abroad, I shall get the better of it, but I must not be interrupted by the intrigues or [illegible] of Ministers who know nothing about the Matter. I have neither time nor temper to deal with that. If the Directive will have prepared for us when I return from [illegible] every thing the Chairman has promised I believe, in answer to the Charge of the inefficiency of the Board, We shall be able to say at the meeting of Parliament, everything is Done in three months which you expected in three years."
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