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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09414-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 August 1787
- Author/Creator
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket : free frank Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
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- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Discusses the Constitutional Convention, and cannot predict the result. Hopes Congress, the states' legislatures, and the community at large will adopt the government agreed upon in the Convention. Is convinced that such government is the best that may be obtained "at the present moment, under such diversity of ideas as prevail." Had anticipated a visit to New York during adjournment of the Convention, but was unable to plan the precise time when an intermission would arise, and thus placed his carriage in the hands of a repairman. Offers his condolences to Knox regarding an unspecified misfortune (the death of Knox's daughter Caroline). Docketed in Knox's hand. Free frank signed by George Washington.
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