BIB_ID
388162
Accession number
MA 1269.59
Creator
Montrésor, Henry Tucker, Sir, 1767-1837.
Display Date
1804 Apr. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lt. Gen. Sir James Pulteney / M.P. / East Bourne / Sussex." The letter was originally addressed to "Park Lane / London" but that was 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
Recommending Quartermaster Wilson for an Adjutantcy or an Ensigncy "as he has just told me he does not like or enter into the spirit of the appointment of Q'r Master;" adding in a postscript "Perhaps you might think it as well to recommend him out of the Reg't."
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