BIB_ID
105471
Accession number
MA 488.127
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Oct. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 43.4 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Place of writing taken from other letters of the same date.
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.
Place of writing taken from other letters of the same date.
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
Congratulating him on the news of surrender of Lord Cornwallis; informing him that some prisoners he "sent up the other day" have been released because they were "not taken in arms."
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