BIB_ID
391183
Accession number
MA 1285.1-34
Creator
Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811.
Display Date
1800-1808.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 v. (34 items), bound ; 42.9 cm
Notes
The 14 letters in this volume to Henry Dundas are dated from August 16, 1800 through December 19, 1800; the first six letters are written at sea from the HMS Renown and the HMS Ajax; the letter dated October 29 is written from Gibraltar, the 6 letters dated November 9-December 11 are dated Lisbon and the final letter in this volume to Henry Dundas is dated "at sea" December 19, 1800.
Volume 28 (MA 1285) 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 1285.1-34).
Volume 28 (MA 1285) 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 1285.1-34).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
A collection of 20 copies, some with duplicate copies, of letters from Sir James Pulteney primarily to Henry Dundas and including copies of 14 letters to Henry Dundas, Lord Melville, two letters to Robert Brownrigg, one letter to Admiral John Borlase Warren and one letter to Lord Hobart, with 14 miscellaneous memoranda, autograph fragments, and printed matter. The volume includes an 18-page manuscript questionnaire, the questions in an unknown hand but the answers possibly autograph, dated January 18, 1808 from the Office of Military Inquiry and related to matters of military finance.
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