BIB_ID
387034
Accession number
MA 1268.1
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1806 Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to Talleyrand as "His Serene Highness, The Prince and Duke of Benevento, Grand Chamberlain, Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c &c &c, of the French Empire."
Docketed.
Volume 11 (MA 1268) 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 1268.1-60).
With two revisions of the final paragraph.
Written from "Hotel des Trois Empereurs"
Docketed.
Volume 11 (MA 1268) 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 1268.1-60).
With two revisions of the final paragraph.
Written from "Hotel des Trois Empereurs"
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the expectation of a prisoner exchange; informing him that he has heard of the release of General Boyer to return to France and expressing his hopes that it would mean he could expect to be returned to England.
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