BIB_ID
389828
Accession number
MA 1273.9
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 May 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragment of a seal to "Major General / Sir James Murray Bart / &c &c &c / No. 27 Bury St / St. James / London."
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).
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 Battle of Menen and the Battle of Mouscron; commenting "Between Ourselves, the Hanoverians are very much dispirited. They complain loudly of the Austrians & of being left to defend their Country. You know their natural Dislike to the Austrians & this last Affair has added much to it. On the other Side it must be said that they have been much opposed & have lost numbers of Men. They behave very well but are a much unfortunate Corps;" commenting on the surrender at Landrecies and the effects of the bombardment saying "It destroyed their Magazines & the Town is reduced to by far a more wretched State than was Valenciennes;" adding, in a postscript a reference to his accounts and a comment on Mr. de Moussaye; saying "I see one of Your letters for Mr. de [la] Moussaye. He is a great Scoundrel, I know it from His shewing me one of Your letters in which He had forged 3 Words. He did not know at the time that he was shewing me what I had written myself;" adding, in a note above the address panel, that General Hammerstein has "brought away 13 Cannons."
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