BIB_ID
385748
Accession number
MA 1266.20
Creator
James, Charles, active 1804-1811.
Display Date
1809 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
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
Reporting that he has "looked into the allegation, which has been so very lately filed, and I observe that Mrs. Fawcett avers that the alteration was made by Lady Bath in the Instructions for the Will, before her Ladyships Signature - If this be so, then the case, as to the Power, will be weakened - no notice whatever of the alteration is taken in the attestation by the Witnesses;" suggesting the desirability of having a shorthand writer to "take down the arguments;" saying he has not yet received the report on the breakwater & apron but expects the report that day.
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