BIB_ID
377764
Accession number
MA 1294.14
Creator
Byron, George Anson, 1758-1793.
Display Date
1780 Jan 8.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Asking him to inform his Father of the success of Admiral Rowley in command of the Magnificent, Sterling Castle and the Vengeance, by taking "three French Frigates in the 2'd Ins. The Le Fortune of 40 guns, Le Blanche of 32 - & a Liverpool Privateer of 36 guns which was taken from the English some Time past & made a French Frigate - they had just landed Troops from Georgia the Remainder of d'Estaing's Force at St. Vincents & were bound to Martinique;" " asking him to deliver a piece of muslin to Augusta with his love; enclosing Bills which he describes as "Congress's Best Bills."
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