Autograph letter signed : "Headquarters" [Alkmaar, North Holland], to Sir James Pulteney, 1799 Oct. 18.

Record ID: 
385473
Accession number: 
MA 1265.29
Author: 
Hope, Alexander, Sir, 1767-1837.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description: 
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with traces of a seal to "L. Gen'l Sir J. Pulteney."
Endorsed.
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).

Summary: 

Notifying him, by orders of His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, "that a suspension of arms has been agreed upon between the two Armies, in consequence of which hostilities are to cease; all field works are to be suspended, such measures as might have been required for purposes of defence & which tend to distress the county are not now to be further pursued : The Posts now held are to be maintained - no intercourse is to be allowed with the Enemy, & you are held responsible that the same Vigilance in respect to duty shall exist as heretofore."

Provenance: 
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.