BIB_ID
80065
Accession number
MA 487.1
Creator
Abercromby, Ralph, Sir, 1734-1801.
Display Date
1793 June 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm.
Notes
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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Offering to help a French officer; commenting "There is too great a prejudice against emigrants. Many of them are [illegible] even in adversity, but if the proper use is made of them, they may do us real Service. La Chatre's Corps [Régiment Loyal-Émigrant] is now as good a Regiment as any in the allied army. Brave & intelligent;" commenting on the lack of sufficient troop strength.
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