BIB_ID
386760
Accession number
MA 1267.11
Creator
Lake, Gerard Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808.
Display Date
1804 Sept. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Volume 10 (MA 1267) 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 1267.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Forwarding a dispatch from the Secretary of Government; informing him that "Jeswant Rao Holkar has advanced near to Agra and his Infantry and Pack of artillery are said to be a few marches in his rear. I am now on my march to oppose him; communicating in cipher following the text "the great advantages to be derived in the present state of affairs;" adding, that he hopes he will "make every possible exertion" with the rest of the text being in ciphers.
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