BIB_ID
388997
Accession number
MA 1271.9
Creator
Nepean, Evan, Sir, 1751-1822.
Display Date
1793 Nov. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 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
Relating to the need to know the measurements of the guns for the foreign troops; suggesting "that rather than sending shot to shew the size of the Guns, the diameter should be taken...to be more exact in the size of the shot desired for the foreign troops."
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