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Autograph letter signed : "Barham Court", to Sir James Pulteney, 1798 June 8.

BIB_ID
385239
Accession number
MA 1264.54
Creator
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1729-1807.
Display Date
1798 June 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 28.5 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
Concerning a situation involving the Lanark & Dunbarton Fencibles; saying "The business being of a very serious nature, I wish you could have made it convenient to have gone over to enquire into the affair, and which I must beg of you to do tomorrow morning, making a report to me of all particulars for further proceedings;" saying he has written to Lieutenant Colquhoun asking him "to remain at Romney detaining all the witnesses until your arrival..."