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- GLC#
- GLC02437.07211-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 23 December 1798
- Author/Creator
- Borland, Leonard Vassall, 1759-?
- Title
- to John L. Borland
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Leonard writes his brother John. The letter is "delivered to you by Mr. Henry Jackson Knox, midshipman on board the United States Frigate Constitution." Leonard explains that "Mr. Knox is son to General Knox, who was one of our first military characters during the revolutionary war with England, and is now one of the most respectable men in the United States."
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