BIB_ID
386160
Accession number
MA 1266.58
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.
Display Date
1809 Feb. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.3 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
Asking that the name of Mrs. Delhoste, "widow of the late General who fell Sacrifice to the zealous discharge of his duty when in Command of His Majestys Forces at Tobago" be added to the Compassionate List; reminding him of "the very heavy loss he [General Delhoste] sustained in Ireland by the Sudden and unexpected reduction of the Staff there..."
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