BIB_ID
388110
Accession number
MA 1269.55
Creator
Montrésor, Henry Tucker, Sir, 1767-1837.
Display Date
1803 Nov. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lt. General Sir James Pulteney B't / M.P. / Park Lane / London."
Endorsed.
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).
Endorsed.
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
Commenting on his new posting to Scotland; saying "I certainly feel a greater confidence in this Country at the head of the Royal Irish than in that we left which occasioned my anxiety...You may not be ignorant that the name of an Irish man in Scotland is not the most welcome; & circumstanced as we are, a greater part composed of the Army of Reserve, we are considered here as forced Conscripts & Irish Rebels; the insults we have experienced since our arrival are too glaring, & might have been resented by Corps less disciplined: these prejudices may wear away & should an Enemy appear on this Coast I trust the Royal Irish will be looked up to;" commenting on the need for more clothing for the men.
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