BIB_ID
387139
Accession number
MA 1268.17
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1808 Sept. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
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).
Written from "Saint Julias Cottage."
Written from "Saint Julias Cottage."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning possible peace talks and a possible prisoner exchange; enclosing a letter which he was going to show him when he got to London, but given the accounts in the French papers, he is sending it now; questioning why if France is talking about peace, "why not enter into a Negotiation for the Exchange of Prisoners, the first step certainly to prove His sincerity;" discussing correspondence he has had with various officials and concluding that he will talk about all of it when he meets with him in London.
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