BIB_ID
388300
Accession number
MA 1270.21
Creator
Mulgrave, Henry Phipps, Earl of, 1755-1831.
Display Date
1808 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 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
Concerning recommendations for appointments; saying he is always ready to do anything in his power to comply with his requests, "but in fact I do not consider the appointments to Staff appointments at my disposal in matter of favour or preference, sufferings in the Service & particularly Loss of Limbs are the grounds on which I make my selections."
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