BIB_ID
386956
Accession number
MA 1267.48
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1805 Jan. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.0 cm
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Docketed
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).
Written from "Hotel des Ambassadeurs."
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).
Written from "Hotel des Ambassadeurs."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Explaining that he is writing because Captain Talorque, Commander of the Gendarmerie and under whose guard he has been, is going to Paris; informing him that he is well again after "the extreme Tortur that I have endured for the last five weeks" and that he can now "begin to think of a Subject I indeed never forgot - the Situation of my Pecuniary affairs in England...and to your Friendship and Humanity I commit myself and the future fate of my five daughters, whose whole prospects in life lays at your Door."
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