BIB_ID
105692
Accession number
MA 488.5
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Nov. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
This is likely a copy of a letter signed held by the Library of Congress in the Papers of George Washington.
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 is likely a copy of a letter signed held by the Library of Congress in the Papers of George Washington.
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 Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Congratulating Washington on the surrender of Cornwallis's army at Yorktown; discussing his plans for retaking Charleston from the British; expressing his "apprehensions that Sir Henry Clinton will endeavor to push some vigorous operations in this quarter this winter to efface if possible their late losses both here and in Virginia"; reporting that General Lesly has arrived to take command; commenting on a possible exchange of prisoners and discussing the American response to the execution by the British of [Isaac] Hayne; expressing his happiness that Wilmington is evacuated "as it leaves North Carolina perfectly at liberty to support this army and fill up their line."
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