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Autograph letter signed : Gibraltar, to Sir James Pulteney, 1799 Apr. 2.

BIB_ID
388046
Accession number
MA 1269.45
Creator
Montrésor, Henry Tucker, Sir, 1767-1837.
Display Date
1799 Apr. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "M. Gen'l Sir James Pulteney B't M.P. / Bruton 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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Reporting on personnel, arms and clothing supplies and the need for an Assistant Surgeon; adding in a postscript that he cannot recommend a young man who wishes to purchase "the first Vacancy."