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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02960-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 21, 1784
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to George Washington
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Knox reflects on the Revolutionary War: "Your calm retreat to Mount Vernon must be a source of ineffable delight to you. You can from there take a retrospective view of the critical exigencies of the War, and see a thousand ways by which the issue might have been the reverse of what it is- And your happiness must be in proportion to the extreme difficulties and danger in the contest and the immense blessings secured to your country by the glorious peace... " Gives Washington news of Congress. Discusses the Society of the Cincinnati: "The Cincinnati appears however groundless to be an object of jealousy..." Notes that in response to the Society of the Cincinnati, a committee has been chosen by the Legislature of Massachusetts to investigate associations that "may have a tendency to create a race of an hereditary nobility..." Knox's retained draft.
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