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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00673-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 17, 1777
- Author/Creator
- Franks, David Salisbury, fl. 1740-1793
- Title
- to Lucy Knox
- Place Written
- Albany, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Franks, aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold, replies on behalf of Arnold to a letter from Lucy Knox. Notes that Arnold's indisposition prevented him from answering Lucy Knox's "Billet," and comments on Arnold's recovery (Arnold suffered from a leg wound inflicted during the Saratoga Campaign). Franks informs Lucy Knox that Arnold cannot part with the contents of an unspecified trunk until he reaches Boston, and offers Lucy Knox preference when he does dispose of the trunk's contents.
See GLC02437.10452 regarding the trunk, the contents of which had been intended for Elisabeth De Blois, a young Loyalist courted (unsuccessfully) by Arnold.
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