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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Mr. [William] Johnstone [Pulteney], 1757 Mar. 30.

BIB_ID
390754
Accession number
MA 1274.3
Creator
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805.
Display Date
1757 Mar. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Mr. Johnstone Esq / Adv. / Ed'r."
Volume 17 (MA 1274) 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 1274.1-74).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him "that yesterday L'd Gray's Cause was decided entirely to my wish. The provost & two deputies from perth were very confident of success & my friend Hotspur, as you call him I'd rather call him Bobadil I believe had some thoughts of claiming costs...I think myself entitled to some merit in the Conduct of the Appeall... I did not argue the Cause to my own Satisfaction because I did not speak w'h any grace or ornament, But I am now certain that I understood the material points & however awkwardly I might have expressed myself I spoke sound law & just reasoning...Tomorrow I expect another victory over the Town of perth in the affair of the highways;" relating news of mutual friends.