BIB_ID
388399
Accession number
MA 1270.33
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
[1794].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
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
Inquiring if she is still in Town and asking if she has not yet left if she will write him a line before she leaves; saying he has kept to his resolution to stay at home in hopes that he can "advance my cure as to enable me to come to Uxbridge;" mentioning an article in The Oracle on the defeat of the Duke of York who had been "driven back from Posts which they had gained the day before, of the truth of which there is no reason to doubt, tho' Governm't have not yet received the intelligence. This Paper says that the British have lost 1000 Men killed, wounded & taken. another account states the loss only at 500. The Emperor's army was not engaged so that the effect at this check upon the Campaign may not be very considerable but it is very disagreeable intelligence indeed;" asking her to mention his leg to her father and tell him that he "determined to stay at home for a day or two."
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