BIB_ID
389244
Accession number
MA 1272.10
Creator
Robertson, Walter Philip Colyear, 1743-1818.
Display Date
1809 Apr. 19
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.0 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 a proposal "for covering the Front of Bodies of Infantry with Musket-proof Shields;" expressing his frustration that it has not been well received among Officers of Artillery or Engineers "notwithstanding their having been informed that I had proved the Practicability of the thing by numberless Experiments - They gave no Reason whatever for giving a contrary Opinion to Doctor Hutton, or for pronouncing an Invention to be useless which two Generals who had commanded Armies thought worthy of Attention."
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