BIB_ID
384856
Accession number
MA 1264.4
Creator
Goate, Edward, 1740-1803.
Display Date
1798 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Volume 7 (MA 1264) 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 1264.1-56).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Reporting that the "Officer who has the Charge of the Signals at Dungeness is very negligent in his office;" relating specifics of unanswered signals; reporting on the results of his inspections of Forts and the results of the smallpox inoculations; reporting "about thirty Transports came out of Dunkirk Harbour and entered the Port of Bologne."
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