BIB_ID
390097
Accession number
MA 1273.44
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1800 Sept. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
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
Enclosing letters from Lady Hale requesting the return to England of her son-in-law, Major Gore and that he not be told of the "loss he has suffered;" commenting on the "Failure of the Attempt upon Ferrol" and informing him that the "Duke has expressed in the most decided terms His avowed Approbation of Your Determination not to persevere in the Attempt as soon as the Issue appeared so precarious;" saying "There is no news which the Papers do not contain. I do not believe that the Interchange of Dispatches between Us & France will lead to any thing, but I speak without Book. - The Disturbances & Riots on Account of the high Price of Provisions are troublesome, but otherwise immaterial &, as is always the case, much exaggerated;" adding, in a postscript, that Lord Minto reported in a letter received that day, that the Austrian Army in "in good order & Spirits."
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