BIB_ID
389236
Accession number
MA 1272.9
Creator
Robertson, Walter Philip Colyear, 1743-1818.
Display Date
1809 Apr. 12
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Submitting his ideas on the revival of the use of pikes and putting forth his arguments for them; asking for his help with a petition for the reestablishment of the rights of the officers of the Scot's Brigade that served in Holland; expressing his disappointment that he has resigned his position as Secretary at War but hoping he will "have the Goodness to support the Cause of the oldest Body of British regular Troops that ever served, whose Behavior on all Occasions little merited being requited by such usage as their remains have suffered."
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