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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00602-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 May 1777
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Laments her lonely situation, noting that a recent visitor brought her news of Henry, but no letter from him. Envies the wives of generals able to travel with their husbands: "happy Mrs. Washington happy Mrs Gates in short I do not recollect an instance like my own- Mrs. Greens you will say is similar, but it is not Mrs G and myself were not cast in one mould." Wishes to visit Henry (at that time in Morristown, New Jersey) declaring "Boston is called a place of danger." Discusses the health of their children.
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