BIB_ID
122260
Accession number
MA 558.58
Creator
Lombart de la Neuville, Louis-Pierre Penot, 1744-1800.
Display Date
1791 Feb. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
It is possible the letter is to General Horatio Gates; it is simply addressed "Dear General", however a postscript sends his "respect to Mistress Gates and Mistress Thompson;" Chevalier Laneuville served as Inspector-General to General Horatio Gates.
Penciled notation, in an unknown hand, in the bottom left corner "Given me by Dr. Emmet / Dec. 24, '89."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
It is possible the letter is to General Horatio Gates; it is simply addressed "Dear General", however a postscript sends his "respect to Mistress Gates and Mistress Thompson;" Chevalier Laneuville served as Inspector-General to General Horatio Gates.
Penciled notation, in an unknown hand, in the bottom left corner "Given me by Dr. Emmet / Dec. 24, '89."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
Summary
Regretting that he must disinvite him "for a second time" from an invitation by Mr. and Mrs. De Crosse; saying "it seems that a pestilential blast has blown upon their whole family. all of them without a single exception are indisposed, almost all are sick in bed. The contagion has struck every individual in their house black as white men and women;" saying he would have delivered the news in person had he not also been unwell.
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