BIB_ID
157667
Accession number
MA 488.94
Creator
Duportail, Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle, 1743-1802.
Display Date
1781 Jan. 24.
Credit line
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.
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 the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
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."
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