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- GLC#
- GLC02437.07375-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 March 1800
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John, 1735-1826
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
President Adams received Knox's letter of February 27. Adams expresses his concern that after recommending Knox's son, Henry, for a commission in the US Navy, the Senate did not approve. He tells Knox that there is little else he can do. Adams says, "the Navy however is a scene of momentous responsibility to me and if a ship should be lost by any Man for whom I shall have made myself thus exclusively answerable, you know what candid constructions will be put upon" me.
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