BIB_ID
385534
Accession number
MA 1265.50
Creator
James, Charles, active 1804-1811.
Display Date
1808 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Right Honble Sir James Pulteney Bart / Park Lane."
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).
With autograph revisions and corrections and an autograph postscript explaining that the letter was transcribed from his short-hand and thus the errors.
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).
With autograph revisions and corrections and an autograph postscript explaining that the letter was transcribed from his short-hand and thus the errors.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Relating a conversation with a Mr. Hanson on issues related to the settlement of the estates of Sir William Pulteney and Lady Bath and the interests of Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett; expressing his concern that "there is a disposition on the part of Mr. & Mrs. Fawcett to interfere;" adding that a Mr. Kipling called on him and told him "he believed Lady Bath had made another Will for at the time the Will was made & when her Ladyship asked him to be an Executor; she said that he would not have much Trouble, as the personal Estate did not exceed £20,000."
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