BIB_ID
384762
Accession number
MA 1262.71
Creator
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
Display Date
1793 Nov. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Some text is missing due to what appears to be water damage.
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).
Some text is missing due to what appears to be water damage.
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 wishes of the Duke of York to come to England; saying "I take it for granted the Duke has wrote to the King on the Subject, and at any rate tomorrow being Wednesday I shall see the King and I will have conversation with him upon it. As far as I could collect from him in my last Conversation with him He will not relish the Idea of any thing like Winter Security; It is difficult to conceive that [he] will be quiet if they with their multitudes can render Winter Quarters uncomfortable. Under these Impressions which the King strongly feels He will not easily be induced to think that the army should want its General, more especially as he seems very desirous that the Duke should not under the idea of Winter Quarters give leave of absence to the officers serving under him."
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