BIB_ID
81464
Accession number
MA 297.11
Creator
Bernard, George, -1820.
Display Date
1794 Oct. 15..
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 22.7 and 31.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "Sir James Pulteney Baronet / Bath House / Piccadilly / London / England."
It appears there may be a page (or more) missing from this letter.
Volume 2 (MA 297) 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 297.1-65).
It appears there may be a page (or more) missing from this letter.
Volume 2 (MA 297) 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 297.1-65).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Complaining about the dating of his promotion and that of Colonel Nugent to March 5, 1794 rather than November 2, 1793 and the ensuing problems it has created; reporting on conditions on the ground in the Netherlands; saying "...Nugent and I consider ourselves ill treated by having our Brigades taken from us without any reason assigned & I want to avail myself of that command being taken from me as a reason for going home...;" complaining about the hostile atmosphere in the country and the lack of treatment for sick and wounded soldiers; commenting "...I may say the Brutality we experience from the Commandants as well as the people of this Infernal [illegible] Country is hardly to be described, it is more like being in an enemies than an allies Country, indeed much more."
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