BIB_ID
80189
Accession number
MA 487.18
Creator
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1779 July 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.9 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).
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
Written in the third person.
William Johnstone took the name Pulteney in 1767 on his wife's succeeding to the estates of Lord Bath.
Written in the third person.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Thanking him for the information concerning the meeting of the Duke of Northumberland and the Gentlemen of the County of Middlesex; adding that he will likely "see the Duke today at St. James's and shall be glad to do every thing in his power to promote the uses so laudably intended by the Gentlemen of this County."
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