BIB_ID
122108
Accession number
MA 489.8
Creator
Laurens, John, 1754-1782.
Display Date
1781 Dec. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
A pencil notation written across the first page of the letter "to Col. Morris at his first joining the Army."
Address panel with traces of a seal "Colonel Morris / Aid to General Greene / Rumphs."
Endorsed on recto.
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.
Address panel with traces of a seal "Colonel Morris / Aid to General Greene / Rumphs."
Endorsed on recto.
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 New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Informing him that due to the weather they will stay the night where they are; asking if he will give him and his four companions "the means of drinking your health in grog."
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