BIB_ID
386124
Accession number
MA 1266.48
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1807 Mar. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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
Acknowledging his recent appointment as Secretary at War and recommending a clerk in the War Office, a Captain Codd, "in whose welfare I am warmly interested, from being convinced of his worth & from knowing him to be the Father of a very large family, whose only support he is;" asking that he select Captain Codd to be his personal secretary.
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