Livingston, Robert, 1708-1790 to James Duane
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02537.03 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert, 1708-1790 Place Written: Livingston Manor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 April 1781 Pagination: 3 p. : address : docket ; 23 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
Writes to his son-in-law with family news. Discusses being "greatly pestered with a band of robbers." Requests news from the southern front in the American Revolution, specifically if Nathanael Greene was successful against Lord Cornwallis and accounts of Benedict Arnold's activities. Mentions his hopes for aid from the Dutch and that "English pride may be curbed and brought to reason."
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