BIB_ID
384996
Accession number
MA 1264.22
Creator
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834.
Display Date
1793 May 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Noted as "Private" in the endorsement and above the salutation.
The place of writing is unclear.
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).
Noted as "Private" in the endorsement and above the salutation.
The place of writing is unclear.
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
Questioning the nature of the business of M. de Wimpffen who arrived with a letter of introduction from him; asking for an explanation as he has "no personal knowledge of him or of his history or of the situation or means of the person he wishes to communicate with - I do not wonder that you, who have enough to do besides opening negotiations of this sort should have overlooked this embarassment, but you will oblige me by letting me know as soon as you can what you know about the business;" adding, in a postscript in a different hand, that the "M. de W. has represented to me the embarassment he is under for want of money, & I have made him a small advance."
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