BIB_ID
387168
Accession number
MA 1268.26
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1809 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20.0 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
Reporting on his meeting with Lord Liverpool; saying Lord Liverpool told him that the subject was not within his jurisdiction but rather with Lord Castlereagh; reiterating his desire to be sent to France to entertain with "Balls, Dinners and Fetes" in order to facilitate a conciliation; enclosing a letter he sent, at Lord Liverpool's suggestion, to Lord Castlereagh and asking that he give the letter to Secretary Canning as Mr. Canning knows him less well than the other Ministers; expressing his continuing desire to negotiate prisoner exchanges.
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