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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04214-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 21 May 1789
- Author/Creator
- Burke, Aedanus, 1743-1802
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 16.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Mentions that he has tried unsuccessfully to "raise a subscription for the unfortunate Baron," likely the Baron de Glasbeech. Writes that there is nothing more he can do, except to send good wishes, and that he is "much mortified by it." A pencil note near the signature, likely written at a later date, states, "Who wrote against the Cincinnati," a reference to Burke's attacks on the Society.
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