BIB_ID
106984
Accession number
MA 488.81
Creator
Burnet, Ichabod.
Display Date
1781 Nov. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 33.4 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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 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
Mentioning Greene's plans for Burnet to visit France with the Marquis de Lafayette; noting that he was "too little acquainted" with Greene's "wishes and object to say much"; reporting that Lafayette is leaving for France right away, but Burnet may be able to travel from Virginia to France with the Comte de Rochambeau in January if Greene wishes him to go; saying that he probably won't leave Philadelphia before Dec. 5 because [Martha] Washington is expected to arrive soon; discussing when various supplies should arrive; remarking that "no decided opinions are yet formed of the consequences which are to follow the glorious events of the late campaign."
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