BIB_ID
388277
Accession number
MA 1270.19
Creator
Mulgrave, Henry Phipps, Earl of, 1755-1831.
Display Date
1807 Sept. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
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).
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
Saying he will try to find a ship on which Lt. Scott can sail to South America; saying he wishes to comply "with your Requests to make me set aside all that I must do to comply with your Views, as the Promotion to the Rank of Commander in the previous State of that List, is an heavy weight on the Service, at the same time that there is no Rank which is [illegible] with so numerous & pressing applications."
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