BIB_ID
387010
Accession number
MA 1268.1-60
Display Date
1799-1809.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (60 items) ; 42.9 cm
Notes
Volume 11 (MA 1268) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (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 individual records for more information (MA 1268.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 60 letters primarily to Sir James Pulteney arranged alphabetically and including 30 letters from John Macleod of Colbecks, 4 letters from Jean-Girard Lacuée, comte de Cessac, 5 letters from John Macpherson and 9 letters from Archibald McNeill.
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