BIB_ID
387166
Accession number
MA 1268.25
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1809 Apr. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.1 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 "15 Cockspur Street."
Written from "15 Cockspur Street."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Thanking him for speaking with Lord Castlereagh on his behalf; offering his services to the country; saying "...it is in times like the present that calls for the services and good offices of every man - and altho my Powers or abilities may be feeble - indeed as they are yet! some good may result;" asking for a short meeting with him before he proposes his suggestions to Lord Liverpool.
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