BIB_ID
384723
Accession number
MA 1262.64
Creator
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
Display Date
[1793] Sept. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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).
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
Concerning the losses at Dunkirk; saying "I can easily enter into your Feelings on occasion of the Disagreeable Circumstances which your Dispatches just arrived announce. They are even a Consolation to us considering the very exaggerated Statements in Lt. Popham's first intelligence. The Disaster as it is we must sincerely lament, and the disappointment is great, [but] you may rest assured that no adverse fortune of those whom we employ will make any charge on [illegible] with which we shall at all times bear up their Character and Exertions. The publick dispatch you will receive along with this will show [His] Royal Highness that what can be done in the moment is done. When I hear again of your further Determinations, I shall write to you more at large what occurs to us here. At present I am induced to suppose that the first Signal advantage you are likely to obtain will be when the Combined force of the army is again collected together. The accounts you give me in your Private letter of the depressed State of the Hanoverian Spirits is one Strong inducement to send you the temporary Reinforcement which my publick dispatch announced."
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