BIB_ID
391054
Accession number
MA 1284.1-49
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
1793-1799.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (49 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
The letters in this volume were written from Estreux, Bourlon, Orchies, Tourcoing, Menin, Ypres, Leffrinckoucke, Longwy, Furnes, Dixmude, Camphin, Tournai and Englefontaine
Volume 27 (MA 1284) 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 1284.1-49).
Volume 27 (MA 1284) 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 1284.1-49).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 49 items including of 44 copies of letters from Sir James Pulteney to Henry Dundas arranged chronologically beginning with a letter from Estreux on July 30, 1793 and ending with a letter from Tournai dated December 6, 1793. The volume also includes two autograph fragments of letters, likely to Henry Dundas but without an identified recipient and undated (MA 1284.10 and MA 1284.11), copies of 2 letters to Prince William, Duke of Gloucester dated "Schager Brug" September 28, 1799 and an undated copy of a letter to Vice Admiral Dickson with a penciled notation suggesting it may have been written in 1799.
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