BIB_ID
105262
Accession number
MA 488.39
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Sept. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
The Library of Congress holds the same letter in its Washington Papers, but the LC letter is not in Greene's hand and is dated Sept. 29.
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.
The Library of Congress holds the same letter in its Washington Papers, but the LC letter is not in Greene's hand and is dated Sept. 29.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Informing him that their situation in the South is "truly distressing" and "the want of reinforcement very pressing"; asking to know Washington's "intentions as early as possible that [he] may take measures to second them"; writing that Lord Cornwallis must be Washington's prisoner; telling him that "the enemy have been up as high as the Eutaw Springs ..., but [they] are now marching down, and ... they plunder every thing they can lay their hands on."
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