BIB_ID
387080
Accession number
MA 1268.4
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1808 Apr. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Marked above the salutation as "No. 1."
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).
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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing his desire to take advantage of the friendships he made during his 5 years of detention in France and work for peace; saying he believes he is well suited "To Carry The Olive Branch;" saying that he will provide him with explanations of his circumstances "accompanied by my own opinions and such Documents - as I possess - Then I shall have relieved myself of the whole, excepting my most devoted sympathising sufferings for those that this Disastrous War, have implicated into so Horrible a dispondency [sic] that life under such untoward misery is not desirable and that God, may be induced from his All infinite and Powerful wisdom and unbounded goodness - Turn all Hearts to unanimity, reconciliation and Peace..."
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