Autograph letter signed : "Petersbourg" [Petersburg, Va.], to General [Nathanael] Greene, 1781 Jan. 24.

Record ID: 
157667
Accession number: 
MA 488.94
Author: 
Duportail, Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle, 1743-1802.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.8 cm
Notes: 

Docketed.
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.

Summary: 

Mentioning that Baron von Steuben is away; expressing his concern that he may have lost a letter from Greene to [George] Washington; telling him of his "great apprehension that letter Contains something important and it falls in bad hands."

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.