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Autograph letter signed : Birr, to Sir James [Pulteney], 1807 Apr. 29.

BIB_ID
384806
Accession number
MA 1262.74
Creator
Durham, James, Sir, 1754-1840.
Display Date
1807 Apr. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Sir James Pulteney Bart / &c &c &c."
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
Thanking him for his letter; saying "I know it was all you could do;" telling him that the volunteers for the Irish Militia are expected before July and if he needed men for the 18th to let him know, "but I shall expect an Ensigncy for every 25 men."