BIB_ID
387525
Accession number
MA 1268.49
Creator
Macpherson, John, Sir, 1745-1821.
Display Date
1807 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Right Honourable / Sir James Pulteney / &c &c &c / from Sir John Macpherson."
Endorsed.
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).
Endorsed.
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
Discussing his hopes for peace and giving three detailed reasons he is hopeful including the possibility of the Earl of Chatham's becoming Prime Minister as the health of the Duke of Portland fails; commenting, at length, on the qualifications of the Earl of Chatham.
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