Autograph letter signed : Leghorn, to Sir James Pulteney, [1803] Mar. 11.

Record ID: 
120936
Accession number: 
MA 487.22
Author: 
Lothian, William Kerr, Marquess of, 1763-1824.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.0 cm
Notes: 

Year of writing from postmark and docket.
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmark to "Sir James Pulteney Bart / Park Lane / Piccadilly / London / L'Angleterre."
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).

Summary: 

Informing him that at Lady Ancram's request he is sending a box of books which she would like to be in his care; reporting on Lady Ancram's health, expressing his wish that the journey will be good for her and hoping they will be in Paris by the middle of April; referring to his proposal to him to establish "a sort of Lloyd's Coffee House for the benefit of travellers & that you have established some general rendezvous in London for all the absentees. A Line however must be drawn to exclude certain descriptions of them for instance such as Arthur O'Connor or Lord Cloncurry who were lately here, or perhaps Col. Despard who I trust however is by this time of that Class of Absentees who would not give us much trouble;" sending their love to Lady Bath.

Provenance: 
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.