BIB_ID
107424
Accession number
MA 488.32
Creator
Cuyler, J., active 1781.
Display Date
[1781 Oct.?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 29.3 cm
Notes
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.
Written "Saturday afternoon / 2 o'clock."
Written "Saturday afternoon / 2 o'clock."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Congratulating him on the fall of Yorktown; adding that the Comte de Grasse "sailed out of the Chesapeake on the 18[th] to fight [Admiral] Digby."
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