BIB_ID
385061
Accession number
MA 1264.30
Creator
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1729-1807.
Display Date
1797 June 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.8 cm
Notes
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).
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
Apologizing for not responding to his earlier letters; asking him for a return of his inspections of the Yeomanry and Volunteers Corps; referring to a pending Court Martial and a request for a leave of absence for an officer which he gives him permission to grant; adding "When this horrid business will be at an End I know not, but all negotiation, & communication is at an End, & every preparation made for the defence should the mutineers be desperate enough to attempt the forcing the Harbour to destroy the Dock-Yard, & Fortress - They are 11 sail of the Line, & 26 other vessels of war - one in complete possession of the anchorage at the Nore, and [illegible] Blocked up the navigation of the Thames & Medway securing every vessel, therefore the Trade of the Nation, completely at an End for the present[.]"
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