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Autograph letter signed : Haddington, to Sir James Pulteney, 1804 July 15.

BIB_ID
388245
Accession number
MA 1270.5
Creator
Montrésor, Henry Tucker, Sir, 1767-1837.
Display Date
1804 July 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Lt General Sir James Pulteney / M.P. / East Bourne / Sussex." The letter was originally addressed to "Park Lane / London" but that 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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning his desire to complete the 1st Battalion with non-commissioned officers from the 2nd Battalion.