BIB_ID
389817
Accession number
MA 1273.5
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 Mar. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Volume 16 (MA 1273) 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 1273.1-54).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Reporting on the attack and eventual retreat of the French at Pommereuil; enclosing information on the "present & Intended Distribution of the Duke's Army; asking, in a postscript, that he now show the enclosed report to anyone and adding "Antwerp will be the principal magazine of the Army, Ghent the principal Depot. Tournay, Condi & Valenciennes Inferior magazines."
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