BIB_ID
80380
Accession number
MA 487.21
Creator
Ancram, Henrietta Kerr, Countess of, 1762-1805.
Display Date
1794 Apr. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Sir James Pulteney did not take the name Pulteney until July 22, 1794, two days prior to his marriage to Henriette Laura Pulteney, 1st Baroness 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).
With an autograph signed letter on page 3 from Lord Ancram to Sir James Murray [Pulteney] encouraging him and Lady Bath to visit as he is anxious "to improve my acquaintance with her thro' you. I am just about to creep out of my Cell in the Abbey to put on a helmet & so pray Come & lend me your assistance in my new Calling."
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).
With an autograph signed letter on page 3 from Lord Ancram to Sir James Murray [Pulteney] encouraging him and Lady Bath to visit as he is anxious "to improve my acquaintance with her thro' you. I am just about to creep out of my Cell in the Abbey to put on a helmet & so pray Come & lend me your assistance in my new Calling."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing her fondness for and admiration of Lady Bath; saying "You have known her long, & I trust & hope that you will both think with as much satisfaction of the Event which is soon to take place, thirty years hence, as you do at this moment;" encouraging him to visit and adding that "L'd Ancram sends his best Compliments & desires me to say that your coming here will be particularly agreeable & convenient, because you may help him to drill his Troops."
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