BIB_ID
121899
Accession number
MA 488.28
Creator
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
Display Date
1781 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 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.
With an additional note on p. [4].
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.
With an additional note on p. [4].
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Congratulating him on his Sept. 8th victory at Eutaw Springs, and calling it "the hardest and best fought battle that the American war has produced"; referring to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown; discussing England's debts; mentioning efforts to take Charleston; asking for an account of his further operations.
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