BIB_ID
389156
Accession number
MA 1272.1-57
Display Date
1752-1818.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (57 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
Volume 15 (MA 1272) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (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 individual records for more information (MA 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 57 letters primarily to Sir James Pulteney arranged alphabetically and including 5 letters from Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth and 4 letters by Adam Smith to Sir William Pulteney.
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