BIB_ID
79969
Accession number
MA 487.14
Creator
Adam, William, 1738-1821.
Display Date
1785 Jan. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to" William Pulteney Esq're / Bath House."
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 487.1-46).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 487.1-46).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him that the house in Albemarle Street was put up for auction and "we bought it for 1900 guineas - I find they require the deposit of 20 percent to be paid tomorrow but the remainder may be postponed till Ladyday - I did myself the honor to call at your house, as Soon as the sale was over to acquaint you of this, and I hope it will not prove inconvenient for you to assist us with £400, the amount of the deposit money tomorrow morning for which purpose I will do myself the honor to wait upon you before 10 o'clock. I beg to assure you, Sir, that my Brothers & I feel most sensibly the very handsome manner in which you so frankly enter'd into our views and assisted us to carry this transaction into Execution."
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