BIB_ID
385743
Accession number
MA 1266.15
Creator
James, Charles, active 1804-1811.
Display Date
1809 Sept. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Right Honble / Sir James Pulteney Bart."
Volume 9 (MA 1266) 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 1266.1-61).
Volume 9 (MA 1266) 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 1266.1-61).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him that he is in the country for several weeks; informing him that he has written two letters to Mr. [John] Hanson "and pressed him to put in the answer, and to which he has not replied. It is now the Long vacation, and perhaps it may be right to wait 10 days or a fortnight longer, before the attachment is issued, and then the Defendants Mr. & Mrs. Fawcett & the children may be arrested, or the Process of Contempt may be sent to Mr. Hanson for his undertaking to put in the answer, by the return of the Writ;" adding that the Markhams, as defendants, are also subject to Process; adding that he has reread the "Marriage articles, the Instructions for the Will and the Will" and has studied other cases that might have a relevance; confessing "that I cannot bring my friend to yield to the Supposition that it is Possible for any Court to decide upon Principles of Law that Instructions for a Will, sho'd supersede that which is a subsequent act, the Will itself. The Case however is to be decided in Doctors Commons, with an appeal to the Delegates;" saying he will send him a rough draft of the Case for him to review and for his observations.
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