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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01199 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: Mount Vernon, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 29 September 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : Order a Copy

Notes the "very kind reception from the good Lady of this place" [Martha Washington]. Gives news about their daughter Lucy, who is staying in Philadelphia. Colonel Clement Biddle and his wife will see her each Sunday. Pertinent correspondence will be forwarded to Knox. Requests that Knox write Biddle to thank him. Expresses her desire for a home and rhetorically asks "will the time ever come when we shall have a house of our own and our children about us[?] if not, life is undesirable." Reports difficulties with their son Harry. Mentions a rumored battle fought by General Nathanael Greene. The Continental Army began to invest the British works for the siege of Yorktown the day before.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786
Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

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