BIB_ID
386783
Accession number
MA 1267.15
Creator
Lake, Gerard Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808.
Display Date
1804 Aug. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.6 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
Concerning troop positions and movements and written almost entirely in ciphers; referring to Colonel Monson and concluding with an English text reference to a courts martial.
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