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- GLC#
- GLC02794.017-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1791/09/09
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Tobias Lear re: thanks for condolences
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Thanks for Lear's condolence letter concerning a death in Knox's family. "We both felt it perhaps too Sensibly, but more particularly the tender Mother whose former wounds are opened afresh on this unexpected event . . . grief almost too much for human nature." Knox lost an infant son and a 9-year-old son in 1790. Attached to GLC 2794.016. Docketed on address leaf.
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