BIB_ID
385388
Accession number
MA 1265.10
Creator
Hastings, Charles, Sir, 1752-1823.
Display Date
[1809?] Sept. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
The year of writing is from the endorsement and it is unclear. It appears to be 1809.
Volume 8 (MA 1265) 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 1265.1-59).
The year of writing is from the endorsement and it is unclear. It appears to be 1809.
Volume 8 (MA 1265) 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 1265.1-59).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Relating details of an evening of gambling; relating intelligence from a "report which has circulated lately at Egham and its environs that a large body are hid in the mountains at Wales ready to start on the Equinox;" adding, in a postscript, that he has "been daily expecting your brother to come to us..."
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