Autograph letter signed : "Whitehall", to Lieut. Gen. Clarke, 1796 Aug. 2.

Record ID: 
368211
Accession number: 
MA 489.88
Author: 
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805.
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.