BIB_ID
387789
Accession number
MA 1269.12
Creator
Mawby, Sebright, -1850.
Display Date
1799 Dec. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmark to "Lieut Genl Sir J. Pulteney, B't / Care of Mess'rs Ross & Olgilvie / Argyll Street / London."
Volume 12 (MA 1269) 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 1269.1-63).
Volume 12 (MA 1269) 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 1269.1-63).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Responding to orders "to send home 3 Sergeants 6 Corporals and 6 Drummers to complete the number requisite for the Recruiting Service;" detailing the men he will send home; requesting that he be permitted to keep the drummers in Gibraltar and have new drummers "taught the drum and fife" in England and added to the Regiment there when they are ready; recommending the Assistant Surgeon to replace the Surgeon who will be on leave for six months."
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