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Autograph letter signed : "New Inn" [London], to Sir John Murray, 1811 May 4.

BIB_ID
385804
Accession number
MA 1266.24
Creator
James, Charles, active 1804-1811.
Display Date
1811 May 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel to "General Murray."
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
Concerning possible support for his election to a seat at Weymouth; pleading his case to be kept on as Counsel [in the case against Mrs. Fawcett]; saying "It would distress me beyond measure to be removed from a Situation, to which I was appointed by Sir James, and which cannot be filled by Mr. Williams."