BIB_ID
385467
Accession number
MA 1265.26
Creator
Honyman, Robert, 1781-1808.
Display Date
1808 Sept. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
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
Expressing his pleasure that Eyre Coote has given his Regiment such a good report and assuring him that "no exertion on my part shall be wanting to promote their health, discipline and welfare...;" relating various personnel issues; asking for his help in getting the control of the Regimental Fund out of the hands of an officer who cannot "claim any Control over the Pecuniary Concerns of the Reg't being neither the Senior nor effective Lieut. Col."
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