BIB_ID
389916
Accession number
MA 1273.32
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 Sept. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "Sir James Pulteney 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
Relating a change of position due to an attack on them at Boxtel; describing the details of the attack and of The Duke's retreat across the Meuse; saying he is uncertain where their next position will be but likely between Grave & Nimeguen; adding "The Enemy appears to be in great force & I am sorry to say that our Troops are dispirited by these continual retrograde Movements;" adding, in a postscript, news of an attack on the Austrians.
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