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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01651-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 October 1782
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Gouverneur Morris
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 21.3 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Relates a variety of information regarding (a prison cartel) meeting with the British Commissioners, General Campbell and Mr. [Andrew] Elliot [lt. gov. of British-occupied New York]. Contrasts Campbell with former British commissioner General [William] Dalrymple. Believes that Morris was "perfectly right" in his opinion that "the British Commissioners wouldn't be able to treat us with equal power." Mentions General William Heath. Knox notes the recent death of his child and illness of his wife Lucy and family
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