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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04709-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 29 August 1790
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to George Washington
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 28.5 cm, Width: 16.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
This appears to be a preliminary draft of Knox's 29 August 1790 letter to George Washington (in the GW Papers at the Library of Congress) responding to Washington's secret communication of 27 August. In that communication, sent to the members of his Cabinet, Washington asked for opinions as to the proper response to take if the British asked for permission to travel across U.S. territory, from Detroit to the Mississippi, in order to attack Spanish posts. See GLC02437.08216, GLC02437.08217, and 2437.09449 for related drafts.
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