BIB_ID
384575
Accession number
MA 1263.53
Creator
William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834.
Display Date
1799 Oct. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Lt. General / Sir James Pulteney Bart. / Head Quarters / Schagerbrug."
Volume 6 (MA 1263) 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 MA 1263 for more information.
With seal.
With the following note on the address panel: "To be forwarded immediately & delivered immediately."
Volume 6 (MA 1263) 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 MA 1263 for more information.
With seal.
With the following note on the address panel: "To be forwarded immediately & delivered immediately."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Reporting that certain posts are currently unoccupied and asking Pulteney to send a battalion to occupy them so his Corps won't be cut off from the rest of the troops; also asking him to "report to the Comr. in Chief the unmilitary conduct of Major Barrington 56th Regt. who never reported to [him] that he was ordered away."
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