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Battles of the United States : autograph manuscript signed of the chapter "The battle of Monmouth," [ca. 1858].

BIB_ID
80090
Accession number
MA 114
Creator
Dawson, Henry B. (Henry Barton), 1821-1889.
Display Date
[ca. 1858].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1898.
Description
1 item (24 p.), bound ; 32 cm
Notes
Probable date of writing inferred from autograph attestation on p. 1.
Provenance
From the Ford Collection. Gordon Lester Ford; by descent to his sons Worthington Chauncey Ford and Paul Leicester Ford; purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1898.
Summary
With a few corrections and revisions throughout, and with an autograph attestation signed on p. 1: "The original draft of my version of "Monmouth" as received from the printer, with the "proofs."" Here titled "June 28th 1778 The Battle of Monmouth."