BIB_ID
389820
Accession number
MA 1273.7
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
[1794 (Apr.?)] 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with a seal to "Major General / Sir James Murray Bart / M.P. / &c &c &c / No. 27 Bury St / St. James / London."
Marked "Private" on the address panel.
The letter is simply dated "22nd" and is placed in the volume between a letter (MA 1273.6) dated "18th April 1794" and a letter (MA 1273.8) dated "25th April." Both of these letters are written from "Cateau" and therefore likely that this letter was written from Cateau on April 22, 1794.
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).
Marked "Private" on the address panel.
The letter is simply dated "22nd" and is placed in the volume between a letter (MA 1273.6) dated "18th April 1794" and a letter (MA 1273.8) dated "25th April." Both of these letters are written from "Cateau" and therefore likely that this letter was written from Cateau on April 22, 1794.
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 troop positions and movements; saying that from a report received "...the French have again fallen back from the Posts they had occupied & it may therefore be expected that the P. of Coburg will return here. If He does not the Duke cannot remain on this Side the Scheldt. Our Position has already been moved to the right & more contracted. By all Accounts the French have converted the Siege of Ypres into a Blokade & from the firing ceasing a Report originated that it was taken Is it not an everlasting Shame that We do not save that Place & such brave fellows?" adding, in a postscript, that he had just heard that the Austrians would not be returning therefore they would likely cross the Scheldt that evening; asking him not to show his letter to anyone; adding, in a postscript dated "22nd Night" that after a "long consultation" they would remain where they were; adding "I am glad that We stay because I should be sorry to abandon these poor People who look upon us as their only Friends. But I fear that in case of great Danger We shall not find in the Austrians that support wh. We are entitled to."
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