BIB_ID
136314
Accession number
MA 489.45
Creator
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de, 1725-1807.
Display Date
1781 Dec. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed on verso.
The signature has been cut from this letter.
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.
The signature has been cut from this letter.
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
Using the opportunity of Captain Pierce's departure to "give you some news of this corps of troops which I command in this county of Virginia;" saying not "nothing interesting has happened since the taking of Cornwallis;" adding that he has news that he cannot authenticate that Admiral Digby is with 9 ships and 16 ships are following Count de Grasse, "that the troops that were imbarked upon the fleet are Landed at Staten island, that [General Henry] Clinton has not been heard of these several days past, that Knyphausen has taken the command and that the English believe that he, Clinton, has drowned himself. Prince William is at New York; asking for his news and hoping for his continued success.
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