BIB_ID
390915
Accession number
MA 1275.1-50
Display Date
1761-1840.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (50 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
Volume 18 (MA 1275) 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 1275.1-50).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 50 letters primarily to Sir James Pulteney arranged alphabetically and including 2 letters of Sir William Johnstone Pulteney, 2 letters of John Whitelock, 1 letter of Sir David Wilkie, 2 letters of William Windham, 2 letters of William Wynyard, 5 letters of Sir George Yonge and 18 letters of The Duke of York.
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