Record ID:
368211
Accession number:
MA 489.88
Description:
1 item (2 p. ; 22.2 cm
Notes:
Endorsed on verso.
Per a penciled notation, "From Fletcher's Life of Gainsborough."
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:
Recommending an officer who wishes an introduction; referring to the situation in Bengal and wishing him every success in his new command; concluding that he will "read in all the papers the details of the melancholy situation of affairs in this quarter of the Globe, and I shall therefore spare myself the painful repetition.
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