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Autograph letter signed : "Fort Amsterdam, Curaçao", to Sir James Pulteney, 1808 June 11.

BIB_ID
384896
Accession number
MA 1264.12
Creator
Graves, James William, 1775-1845.
Display Date
1808 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.3 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
Enclosing returns for the 2nd Battalion; reporting on various personnel matters at the Fort, on his reply to questions in a letter from General Villettes who was in transit to Jamaica and asking about specific troop and administrative conditions there and discussing a clothing issue for the troops.