BIB_ID
384946
Accession number
MA 1264.19
Creator
Graves, James William, 1775-1845.
Display Date
1809 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Right Honble / General Sir James Pulteney Bart / &c &c &c / Park Lane / London."
Endorsed.
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).
Endorsed.
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
Concerning proceedings against him in a court martial and believing he will prevail; telling him that it was suggested that Mrs. Graves write to the General on his behalf and he explained he would not ask her to do that; discussing 1st Battalion business and reporting that his 2nd Battalion had been removed from Curaçao to Port Royal.
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