BIB_ID
388995
Accession number
MA 1271.8
Creator
Nepean, Evan, Sir, 1751-1822.
Display Date
1793 Nov. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
Volume 14 (MA 1271) 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 1271.1-60).
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
Volume 14 (MA 1271) 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 1271.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Requesting that he find out "as soon as possible what number of pieces of Field Artillery and the quantity of ammunition, the Hessians, Darmstadt and Baden troops ordered to Ostend have with them, in order that the necessary Tonnage for these Stores may be provided, and sent over, when these Troops are to be brought away, and also that we should make provision accordingly here in case they should be insufficiently supplied."
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