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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03119-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 28, 1785
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Rufus King
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 32 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Knox discusses his appointment as Secretary at War. Informs King, a Continental Congressman, "It is true I was fully of opinion that the salary was considerably inadequate to the honorable support of so confidential an officer, but I thought it would be injurious to the dignity of Congress to state that circumstance as an objection to my acceptance..." Hopes a future Congress will consider increasing the position's allowance.
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