BIB_ID
387004
Accession number
MA 1267.59
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1806 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
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 "Place Bardeneu."
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 "Place Bardeneu."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Thanking him for his message "...of your prospective Hopes for me...;" saying "I find the Minister of War is about this time expected in Paris, which more immediately impress's on me the thoughts of that delicious Word - Pass Port...Happy I will be when the time arrives when Every man shall have the Power of giving without control those opinions of all men to the World, that their merits entitles them to and enable us to through [sic] off that reserve which the particular position and circumstances of the Times makes it wise to forbear...do my Friend Press for my leave to go to St. Germain For There are even in the absence of the Minister of War, In his office, a Sufficient activity of those functions which regulates the prisoners of War, What can authorise such a desirable change for me;" adding that Mrs. Macleod has told him that she continues to work to help Monsieur Lacuée's nephew return to England and then to France "with the same opinion you have of the kindness's shown to you in France."
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