BIB_ID
80252
Accession number
MA 488.84
Creator
Butler, Richard, 1743-1791.
Display Date
1782 July 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.7 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Endorsed: "Private" and "Recd. Oct. 9th."
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.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis and "P.U." in a double circle surmounted by a crown.
Endorsed: "Private" and "Recd. Oct. 9th."
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.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis and "P.U." in a double circle surmounted by a crown.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Expressing his concern that his last two letters have miscarried; reporting that [George] Washington has detained him to "command the recruits of this State"; speculating that they are being held in Carlisle because of Washington's "expectation of the evacuation of Charlestown"; saying that he is anxious to join Greene "as [his] health is perfectly stable & [he is] most heartily tired of loitering while [his] friends are in the field."
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