BIB_ID
122128
Accession number
MA 1268.34
Creator
Lacuée, Jean-Girard, comte de Cessac, 1752-1841.
Display Date
1806 Jan. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Volume 11 (MA 1268) 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 1268.1-60).
With an English translation in another hand (MA 1268.35).
Written on the letterhead of the Ecole Polytechnique with a printed heading "J.G. Lacuée, Conseiller d'Etat, / Président de la Section de la Guerre, Grand Officeur / de la Légion d'honneur, Membre de l'Institut national, Gouverneur de l'Ecole polytechnique."
With an English translation in another hand (MA 1268.35).
Written on the letterhead of the Ecole Polytechnique with a printed heading "J.G. Lacuée, Conseiller d'Etat, / Président de la Section de la Guerre, Grand Officeur / de la Légion d'honneur, Membre de l'Institut national, Gouverneur de l'Ecole polytechnique."
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning his wish to help him; saying that previous to getting his letter it was his Nephew's interest that might have involved him to secure his liberty, but after reading his letters and seeing the goodness of his heart he wishes to help; saying he has written to the Minister who has responsibility for prisoners of war and requested that he send him home; saying the Minister will soon be in Paris and he cannot promise anything but he will do his best; promising to send the package he wished sent to his wife by his niece who is in London along with the parcels for Admiral Craig and for the Governor of Malta; adding that he felt it safer to send them to England than via the Continent; informing him that he has learned that the Emperor has authorized the release of his nephew, John Chrysostom Lacuée, a prisoner of war in Malta, to be exchanged for English officers who had been taken from English ships; adding that he hopes this will prove this strengthens his desire to help him; saying he has sent extracts of his letters to his brother who is in Agens and hopes that they may meet.
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