British military officer (1713-1776), uncle of Charles Cornwallis of Yorktown fame, who served as governor of Nova Scotia and then governor of Gibraltar. LS signed “Cornwallis,” one page, 7 x 8.75, February 26, 1764. Timely letter as governor of Gibraltar, where he had implemented a quarantine on incoming ships due to sickness spreading across the Mediterranean. In full: "I was favor'd with your Letter this morning, and am sensibly mortified that I cannot have the Honor of seeing you ashore, But the Strictness of my Instructions relating to the Quarantine, and the late accounts which I have receiv'd of a Contagion spreading, with fresh Rage, in some of the Ports of the Mediterranean, put it entirely out of my Power to indulge my own Inclination of obliging you in this Particular." In very good condition, with scattered staining, and old tape along the trimmed edges.
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