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Collection of autograph letters signed : to Sir James Pulteney, 1796-1808.

BIB_ID
386584
Accession number
MA 1267.1-60
Display Date
1796-1808.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (60 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
Volume 10 (MA 1267) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (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 individual records for more information (MA 1267.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 60 letters primarily to Sir James Pulteney arranged alphabetically and including 19 letters from General Gerard Lake and 19 from John Macleod of Colbecks.