BIB_ID
389125
Accession number
MA 1271.38
Creator
Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, 1757-1833.
Display Date
1813 June 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
The letter is addressed "My Dear General."
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).
The letter is addressed "My Dear General."
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
Congratulating him on "breaking ground both at Alicante and Tarragona. I am sure you will every day find & feel the good effects of your measures and nothing can stop your entering Tarragona. I have obeyed your summons and am proceeding to Rose's. But you are perfectly aware of the nature of that place and that without leaving in it British protection I sh'd only expose the poor Natives to persecution and [illegible]; asking his judgment on whether it could be garrisoned to support the efforts on the eastern frontier; adding he will be "anxious to hear from you as you are apprised of the larger floating force I have put for the occasion out of my sight But which i cannot long permit to be so."
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