Record ID:
130333
Accession number:
MA 488.133
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.5 cm
Notes:
Endorsed.
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:
Thanking him for his letters and for deciphering the enemy's coded letters; congratulating him on the "glorious success in Virginia" against Lord Cornwallis, and adding that the victory should give John Adams "good materials to negotiate a peace upon."
Provenance:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
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