BIB_ID
105254
Accession number
MA 488.112
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Sept. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This letter may be a copy of a letter held by the New-York Historical Society.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This letter may be a copy of a letter held by the New-York Historical Society.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Regretting the treatment of Steuben by the populace; writing, "Our operations here [South Carolina] and in Virginia have been not unlike cross purposes, the Marquis [de Lafayette] has been endeavoring to reinforce us, but has been contravened by subsequent considerations"; congratulating him "on the arrival of the French fleet in Chesapeake, and of General [George] Washington's arrival to take command in Virginia"; noting that "Lord Cornwallis must tremble for his situation"; telling him about the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
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