BIB_ID
390711
Accession number
MA 1274.1-74
Display Date
1757-1816.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (74 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
Volume 17 (MA 1274) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries "the larger portion having reference to the Duke of York's Expedition to the Low Countries and to the Threatened Invasion of England by Napoleon" (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see individual records for more information (MA 1274.1-74).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 74 letters primarily to Sir James Pulteney arranged alphabetically by author and including four letters by Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of Rosslyn to Sir William Johnstone Pulteney, seven letters from Sir John Borlase Warren, 1 letter from Sir Brook Watson, 1 letter from Robert Watson, two letters from Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington to his solicitors, 50 letters from General David Douglas Wemyss and four letters from John Fane, Earl of Westmorland.
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