BIB_ID
389915
Accession number
MA 1273.31
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 Sept. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with a seal and postmarks to "Major General / Sir James Pulteney Bart M.P. / &c &c &c / No. 57 Pall Mall / London." The letter was originally addressed to Shrewsbury and to Edinburgh and both are crossed through.
Marked "Private" over the salutation.
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" over the salutation.
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
Referring to the "shameful" surrender at Valenciennes and Condé; saying "This Event will not prevent the Execution of the intended Plan as far at least as related to the Recovery of Brabant & Flanders, and I am happy to say General Clerfaye appears determined to adopt active Measures as far as Circumstances will allow. We shall probably move forward about the 17th or 18th;" adding "I am happy to tell you entirely entre Nous that two French Reg'ts Aquitaine & Anjou have offered to come over to Us & to serve with Us. This has been accepted."
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