Letter, [1781] Aout [August] 29, Charlottesville [Va.] to [Pierre Etienne] Duponceau, Philadelphie [Philadelphia, Pa.]

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Letter, [1781] Aout [August] 29, Charlottesville [Va.] to [Pierre Etienne] Duponceau, Philadelphie [Philadelphia, Pa.]

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Letter, 29 August 1781, written in French in which Steuben inquires about Duponceau's health and discusses his own. Plans to join [Nathanael] Green[e] in Carolina. Part of his equipment has already departed. Askes about a packet sent to the French envoy. States he has not received an answer from the Secretary of Congress, nor from the President, nor has he received a reply from Chevalier de La Luzerne. Requests newspapers from [John] Dunlap for June, July and August, as well as the journals of Congress for those months.

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