BIB_ID
81537
Accession number
MA 1260.6
Creator
Calvert, Harry, 1763-1826.
Display Date
1800 Apr. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Volume 3 (MA 1260) 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 MA 1260 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Telling him that King [George III] "has been pleased to direct that [Pulteney] shall be employed on the staff" and that he is to "take upon [him]self the Command of the Camp which is to be formed near Southampton."
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