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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04585-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 April 1790
- Author/Creator
- Bourne, Sylvanus, 1761-1817
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Signed in text. Note left for Knox as he was not home when Bourne came to call. States that he wanted to discuss with Knox about "when the foreign arrangments [sic] will take place..." Asks Knox to speak to the President, George Washington, on his behalf regarding his candidacy for a position abroad in the public agency. Date previously inferred, added later in pencil. See GLC02437.04587 for Knox's response to Bourne's letter.
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