BIB_ID
384670
Accession number
MA 1262.57
Creator
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
Display Date
1793 Aug. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
It is possible that the person referred to in this letter as Monsieur Jarré is Pierre Auguste de Lajard (1757-1837). This attribution of the name is made in the Index to "Despatches of Earl Gower, English ambassador at Paris from June 1790-August 1792."
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
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).
It is possible that the person referred to in this letter as Monsieur Jarré is Pierre Auguste de Lajard (1757-1837). This attribution of the name is made in the Index to "Despatches of Earl Gower, English ambassador at Paris from June 1790-August 1792."
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
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
Sending "for your Private perusal two papers which have been given to Lord Grenville by Monsieur Jarré, altho some of His reasoning does not accord with the Plan of Operations, I have thought it right to send them to you, both because I should be glad to be [illegible] by your [illegible] observations as occur to you upon his reasoning, and because some of the suggestions they contain may be Worthy of attention even in the Prosecution of the Plans We have in [illegible]. He is very [illegible] in the Details he gives of the Situation of Dunkirk. I have not time to write more at present without detaining the Messenger, but I need not inform you how happy the late [illegible] on the Continent have made everybody here, and with what satisfaction We look forward to the further operations on the Campaign."
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