BIB_ID
388195
Accession number
MA 1270.4
Creator
Montrésor, Henry Tucker, Sir, 1767-1837.
Display Date
1804 July 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lt Gen'l 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 the Sussex address written beneath it.
Endorsed.
Volume 13 (MA 1270) 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 1270.1-50).
Endorsed.
Volume 13 (MA 1270) 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 1270.1-50).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing his concern about the insufficient number of non-commissioned officers in the battalion; saying he is "Eleven Serjeants & Twelve Corporals short of the Complement & know not where to look for subjects to replace several that are very inadequate to the post they now fill & am thus necessitated to keep on those I should otherwise place in the Ranks;" adding that he will continue to try his best to be find the men he needs.
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