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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04639-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 June 1790
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Henry Sherburne
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 32.2 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Informs Colonel Sherburne, "I am unable to inform you of the motives which [induced] the President of the United States to nominate the persons he did to the service for officers in the customs at Newport." Assures Sherburne that although he was passed up for the position, he still retains high standing in the President's mind.
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