BIB_ID
284399
Accession number
MA 488.1-147
Display Date
1759-1911
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
2 boxes (147 and 107 items), unbound : ill. (ports.) ; size varies
Notes
Some items (approx. 6) have been removed from this collection and are now housed separately.
Some items have different acquisition and provenance information; see individual records for details.
Some items have different acquisition and provenance information; see individual records for details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
A large collection of autograph letters and documents related to the 1781 siege of Yorktown during the American Revolution. MA 488 includes letters from Thomas Burke, Edward Carrington, Charles Cornwallis, Nathanael Greene, the Marquis de Lafayette, James McHenry, George Washington, and many others. In addition, MA 488 includes realia such as a piece of the flag Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown (MA 488.142), textile fragments from Martha Washington's wedding dress (MA 488.144), and a strand of George Washington's hair (MA 488.146). MA 489 includes letters from Henry Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, the Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Lee, Benjamin Lincoln, Peter Muhlenberg, Timothy Pickering, Thomas Nelson, Josiah Parker, the comte de Rochambeau and Baron von Steuben, portrait engravings, and engravings of the Surrender at Yorktown. For details about individual items, see MA 488.1-147 and MA 489.1-107.
Housed in
Two blue cloth drop-spine boxes (42.4 cm)
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