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Autograph letter signed : [Bombay?], to Colonel Murray, 1803 Oct. 29.

BIB_ID
389028
Accession number
MA 1271.15
Creator
Nicholls, Oliver S., 1740-1829.
Display Date
1803 Oct. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Colonel Murray."
Colonel John Murray served as Quarter Master General in India, 1801-1805.
Marked "Private" on the address panel.
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
Discussing the disposition of certain correspondence; informing him that his proposals for raising a Corps of Cavalry have been approved with no limitation on the number "but to employ what you deem necessary[.] the purse is not to be left in your hand - but you have power to draw as you want from the Paymaster; 'discussing various personnel matters.