BIB_ID
386795
Accession number
MA 1267.17
Creator
Lake, Gerard Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808.
Display Date
1804 July 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Colonel Murray / &c &c &c / G. Lake."
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).
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 movements and positions and written almost entirely in ciphers; including limited English between the ciphers such as..."The information you have obtained of... appears in every respect to have been...His army is reduced in numbers and those that...are to an extreme degree...and...Apprehensive about his immediate safety, it appears improbable that he meditated any...and even if he professed such intentions their... I entertain hopes that a better knowledge of...and...will have induced you to...different from...have proposed and that I may...for the most...from your exertions."
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