BIB_ID
129790
Accession number
MA 489.42
Creator
Pierce, William, Jr., 1753-1789.
Display Date
1781 Dec. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The honble / Major General Greene / Commanding the / Southern Army."
Endorsed on verso.
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.
Endorsed on verso.
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
Explaining that he is detained longer than he expected, therefore he is enclosing a letter from General Washington and several others though the letter from the President of the Congress he "cannot trust out of my own hand;" reporting that the Assembly of Virginia is in session "but they have done nothing of any consequence yet. I hope, however, that the Army will claim a part of their attention. Your Letter has been read, but I have heard nothing more said of it, than that it was a very good one;" reporting that the British Army has returned "and report says that Sir Henry Clinton has disappeared : conjectured by some that he has drowned himself;" expecting to see him a few days after the arrival of this letter.
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