BIB_ID
80342
Accession number
MA 876.8
Creator
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801.
Display Date
1782 July 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 32.8 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters written by Benedict Arnold. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Removed from "Collection of Official papers and Autograph Letters relating to the American War of Independence and the Conquest of Canada."
Part of a collection of letters written by Benedict Arnold. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Removed from "Collection of Official papers and Autograph Letters relating to the American War of Independence and the Conquest of Canada."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Setting forth his opinion on why England should not "grant America unconditional Independence. A measure in my humble Opinion big with the Ruin of both Countries;" believing "that America may yet with any little exertion and the Force now there, be brought to a Reunion with great Britain;" adding that he believes the rebels in America are a very small proportion of the population; pledging himself to aid in the cause of Reunion and requesting "five thousand British Troops, and the Provincials in America put under my orders, with necessary Transports, and that the Troops in New York are permitted to Act as a Check on Mr. Washington's Army and the Country."
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