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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03866-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 May 1788
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Henry Jackson
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Knox writes a scathing castigation in response to Jackson's letter of 27 April, in which Jackson informed Knox he could appropriate 10,000 of Knox's dollars [in certificates] "without the least risque" (refer to GLC02437.03862). Knox writes, "I should indeed have been very unhappy at being informed that you barely entertained the idea of appropriating 10000 dollars of my public certificates which I deposited in your hands for safe keeping, but I am overwhelmed with astonishment by the information that you should actively appropriate out of them 5000 dollars without waiting to hear from me." Declares that the future care and support of his family depends on the certificates, thus they are of the utmost value to him.
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