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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05535-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12 July 1792
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Lucy Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Mentions being "attacked with the cursed fever" last week, but is now better. Wishes he could be with her and the family. Informs that Mrs. Smith is doing better after being very ill with a "disorder in her bowels." Writes that "Our President [George Washington], Mrs. Washington and family departed yesterday..." Writes of events in England and France exclaiming, "What unpleasant work on the frontiers of France! - England will go into confusion - do you not think Tom Paine has excited great commotion in mens minds to be honored with a royal Proclamation against his writings."
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