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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00697-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 21, 1778
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Knox
- Place Written
- Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 33.5 cm, Width: 21.3 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Location from docket. Asks his brother William, in Boston, why he has not recently written. Declares, "My God this War will go near to ruin me, they are making their Fortunes & I am losing one, however a good intention and a good Conclusion will I hope support & comfort me." Wishes he had a chaise instead of a phaeton (Knox had previously corresponded with his brother regarding the sale of his wife Lucy's phaeton). Reports that Great Britain intends to offer terms of conciliation "to place us where we were in the Year 1763." Mentions a speech by Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain, in which North "proposed peace as preferable to any other method ... he said he had been deceived he never thought the natural force of America to be so great ... " Has sent drafts of two bills to General Hancock (possibly General Ebenezer Hancock, brother of John Hancock). Could not obtain a copy of an unspecified speech.
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