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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03114-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 March 1785
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Charles Thomson
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Knox writes to Thomson, Secretary of Congress. Accepts the appointment of Secretary at War: "I have the most grateful sentiments to Congress for this distinguishing mark of their confidence, and I shall according to the best of my abilities attempt to execute the duties of the office. I shall have a perfect reliance upon a candid interpretation of my actions, and I shall hope that application to business, and propriety of intention, may in a degree excuse a deficiency of talents." Plans to be at New York by 12 April 1785.
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