BIB_ID
387202
Accession number
MA 1268.31
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1809 Aug. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
The letter begins at "Noon 14 August 1809" from an unidentified location, dated again on page two as "Downing Street, 2 o'Clock 14th August 1809" and further on the page "3 oClock."
The letter is marked "Private / Precis" at the top of page 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).
The letter is marked "Private / Precis" at the top of page 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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him he has just received dispatches from Sir Arthur Wellesley who reports on the attack on his troops by Joseph Bonaparte with Marshals Jourdan & Victor and General Sebastiani"; reporting the casualty numbers on both sides; explaining how he came upon the information; adding that the list of killed and wounded is too long to copy; commenting on the exchange of Prisoners of War and Brenier; concluding that nothing has been done with respect to settling his accounts; relating news of [Sir Alexander] Don and his financial difficulties.
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