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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01303-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 12, 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Nathanael Greene
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 28.9 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Since arriving in Philadelphia, has tried to gather a party of about 30 artificers to give to Greene. Discusses Mrs. Greene's trip with their son George Washington Greene to visit Greene at the "high hills of Santee" (the Santee River in South Carolina, where Greene was stationed). Also mentions the recent birth of a son to him and Mrs. Knox, "whom I should name after you were not for the confounded name given by your [illegible] father - as it is I shall call him after some roman whose character I think you may like" (possibly referring to his son Marcus). Sends love to Colonel Williams and Colonel Laurens.
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