BIB_ID
389864
Accession number
MA 1273.16
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 June 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Major General / Sir James Murray Bart / M.P. &c &c &c / 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 situation at Ypres; providing troop strength and positions; commenting on the Royalists gathering in the Vendée and its impact on the conclusion of the war; commenting on the Austrians saying "I wish We could find out something to make our friends the Austrians forget Intrigues & Cabals wh. have lately exceeded every thing during the last Campaign;" adding, in a postscript, that he expects to be a Lieutenant in a few days.
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