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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03030-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 21 July 1784
- Author/Creator
- Troutbeck, John, fl. 1755-1784
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- London, England
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 18.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Expresses his feelings of friendship to Knox: "An age of absence can never obliterate from the Mind, Friendship, which has once been formerly rooted; from that principal I seek no apology for addressing this to my Old & much esteem'd Friend; who, after the fatigues of War, I shou'd be as happy to shake by the Hand, as any Man I know under the Sun." Refers to having sailed to almost every part of the globe. Mentions a set of mugs he bought for Knox in Canton, China (present-day Guangzhou), one of which has since broken. Had a drawn sword and the motto "Pro Libertate" painted on the mugs. Possibly written by Reverend John Troutbeck, a Loyalist who left America in 1776.
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