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- GLC#
- GLC04798
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 November 1797
- Author/Creator
- King, Rufus, 1755-1827
- Title
- to Timothy Pickering
- Place Written
- London, England
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written by King as American Ambassador to Britain to Secretary of State Pickering. Written in numeric cipher, probably concerning the implications of XYZ Affair. Letter was unable to be uncoded at this time. Cipher could possibly be in the Rufus King Papers at New-York Historical Society.
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