BIB_ID
389877
Accession number
MA 1273.22
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 July 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Major General / Sir James Murray Bart / &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
Relating news of the recent attacks by the French on the 12th and the 14th; relating details of their principal posts and preparations being made for a retreat; expressing his hope to tell him "...in my next that We have beat the French. At present Things do not look well."
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