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- GLC#
- GLC02437.10734-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 March 1872
- Author/Creator
- Thatcher, Henry Knox, 1806-1880
- Title
- to Marshall P. Wilder
- Place Written
- Winchester, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses the papers of his grandfather, Henry Knox. Writes that he loaned them to the late Joseph Willard Esq. who was supposed to write a memoir of Knox. He is now having trouble getting them back from Willard's son but is working on the situation. Wants to ensure the transfer of the papers to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of which Wilder is president. In a postscript states there are over 60 George Washington letters which he would like to place in the vault of the Society.
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