BIB_ID
80573
Accession number
MA 487.42
Creator
Armstrong, William, active 1806-1809.
Display Date
1806 Apr. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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).
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
Asking where he should send charges for duty on his horses; asking "whether I shall obtain the Brevet promotion to which I think I am so clearly entitled;" saying that if he does not receive a promotion he will be forced to retire from the Service; expressing his approval of "Mr. Windham's Plan for the Army...perhaps you may recollect that I submitted a similar one for the Recruiting Service to you in the year 1802 - before I sent it to the Adjutant General - I lately enclosed an outline of my Plan with some additions and modifications to Mr. Windham and I am well pleased to see that a change in the term of enlistment is at length to take place, as I am persuaded (from my knowledge of the Recruiting Service) that the honor of serving for life in the East or West Indies, has prevented thousands from becoming Soldiers, and has been in a great measure the cause of such frequent desertions in the British Army;" asking "Shall we now send Troops to assist the King of Sweden, or will we look on and see him deprived of his Dominions without making an effort to prevent his ruin?"
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