Swan, James, 1754-1830 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.04810-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
27 December 1790
Author/Creator
Swan, James, 1754-1830
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Paris, France
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 22.9 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Swan has enclosed a plan "advantageous" to both the U.S. and France and wishes Knox to exert his influence over President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to agree to it. Swan also sends "the bankers' letter to me, the Commission or agency in which, I sacredly engage to pay to you." In a postscript dated 30 December Swan asks Knox, "pray sound Mr. Jefferson on this, or get some one to do it. I am affraid of him, merely because Mr. Short may have misled him."

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