BIB_ID
130333
Accession number
MA 488.133
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Nov. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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.
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 J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Thanking him for his letters and for deciphering the enemy's coded letters; congratulating him on the "glorious success in Virginia" against Lord Cornwallis, and adding that the victory should give John Adams "good materials to negotiate a peace upon."
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