Autograph letter signed : Oosterhout, to Sir James Pulteney, 1794 Aug. 8.

Record ID: 
389887
Accession number: 
MA 1273.27
Author: 
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.6 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with traces of a seal to "Major General / Sir James Pulteney Bart / &c &c &c /."
Volume 16 (MA 1273) 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 1273.1-54).

Summary: 

Reporting on the efforts to relieve Sluys and the French movement toward Liege; reporting that "The Duke is perfectly well, & in better Spirits than He has been for some time."

Provenance: 
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.