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Franks, David Salisbury, fl. 1740-1793 to Lucy Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00673 Author/Creator: Franks, David Salisbury, fl. 1740-1793 Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 December 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 18.3 cm Order a Copy

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.

Franks, David Salisbury, fl. 1740-1793
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801

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