BIB_ID
385812
Accession number
MA 1266.26
Creator
James, Charles, active 1804-1811.
Display Date
1811 Oct. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmark to "Sir John Murray Bart / M.P. / Hythe." Hythe has been crossed out and Chatham written beneath it.
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
Concerning an appointment for Mr. Henning; informing him that he had spoken with Sir James Pulteney about Mr. Henning if a vacancy should arise but he did not keep a copy of the letters he wrote to Mr. Henning following his conversations with Pulteney; discussing the "old Interest" in Weymouth; saying "If Sir John [Johnstone] would not interfere but allow himself to be directed and follow such advice as you should give him he will have no Difficulty in keeping the Return of the four members, but if he acts according to his own Notions, Two of the Seats must go, and he will have great Difficulty in being returned himself. Sir John ought to know that he has now lost the Power of returning the 4 members, entirely by bad management. He has destroyed that which I, for one, had been working years to accomplish." reiterating his wish for an appointment for Mr. Henning.
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