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Autograph letter signed : "Barham Court", to Sir James Pulteney, 1797 June 12.

BIB_ID
385097
Accession number
MA 1264.32
Creator
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1729-1807.
Display Date
1797 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.5 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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Referring to an officer's absence without leave; reporting "The Bad business at the Nore is not altogether over, but I think nearly so, & that the whole will in a few days submit & return to their Duty, I hope it will be unconditional submission, I am sure it ought to be & to make severe examples of most of the Delegates;" relating specific actions in the mutiny and expressing his hope that it will be over in "two or three days;" adding, in a postscript, "I have just Heard that Capt. Knight is returned, that the Admiralty would not allow him to open his Commission, most properly saying nothing now would be accepted but unconditional submission."