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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09420-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 April 1789
- Author/Creator
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Mount Vernon, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Thanks Knox for recently sending cloth and buttons. Notes that his coat requires six more buttons for trim, and asks Knox to procure and hold these until Washington arrives in New York. Mentions an article of impost, and laments "the stupor, or listlessness with which our public measures seem to be pervaded." In a post script, predicts a quorum in both Houses of Congress.
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