BIB_ID
386763
Accession number
MA 1267.13
Creator
Lake, Gerard Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808.
Display Date
1804 Aug. 27.
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
Being a letter written almost entirely in ciphers; inserting English text towards the end "I must again press upon your attention the advantages to be derived" followed by ciphers; asking that he forward his letter, "with all possible expedition" to Mr. Webbe.
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