BIB_ID
389031
Accession number
MA 1271.16
Creator
Nicholls, Oliver S., 1740-1829.
Display Date
1803 Nov. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.9 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).
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
Enclosing an extract of a letter from General Wellesley which assures him that "all the fuss about your acting entirely in a kind of opposition to Major Walkers ideas, are ill founded and your answer will set all this business to rights;" reporting that "The Admiral Landed today - under a Salute of 17 Guns - and the Street Lined by the Fencible Reg't from the Dock to the Government house - he looks as well as when he left us...;" relating news of mutual friends.
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