Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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GLC02437.00562
GLC#
GLC02437.00562-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
April 1, 1777
Author/Creator
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Thanks him for his letter, which Samuel Shaw delivered. When she had not heard from him for two posts she began to worry. She loves him more than ever, and will send the goods he requested in his previous letter. Details her plans to be inoculated against smallpox. Had hoped to go to a hospital in Brookline, where Doctor Gardner promised he would see her every day. But this hospital is now perhaps going to be used only to inoculate soldiers. In that case she plans to go to a hospital in Salem. Wishes he had taken care of the business with Mr. Hichborn himself, and discusses other personal business.

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