BIB_ID
388122
Accession number
MA 1269.57
Creator
Montrésor, Henry Tucker, Sir, 1767-1837.
Display Date
1804 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lt. General Sir James Pulteney B't / M.P. / East Bourne / Sussex." The letter was originally addressed to "Park Lane / London" but that address has been crossed through and "East Bourne / Sussex" written beneath it.
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
Asking for his assistance in getting a clothing allotment detained at Liverpool; discussing an Ensigncy available for purchase; suggesting a design for a silver stud stamped with a harp & crown, that could be attached to the strap of an epaulette; discussing the positioning of troops on the coast to protect against an invasion and "I should also imagine that from such menacing position the Enemy would not (presently) venture to concentrate their army & have their extensive Coast unprotected from insult."
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