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Gouvion, Jean Baptiste, 1747-1792 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02988 Author/Creator: Gouvion, Jean Baptiste, 1747-1792 Place Written: France Type: Autograph letter signed Date: March 1784 Pagination: Order a Copy

Informs Knox that the Society of the Cincinnati is "... sure do well in this country, but the news we have from america give me some uneasiness, the american gentlemen who are in paris and not members of the Society are much against it, chiefly Mr. Jay who went the other day so far as to say that if it did take well in the states, he should not care whether the revolution had succeeded or not." Discusses exclusionary policies of the Society. Describes recent developments in hot air ballooning: two days prior, "a gentleman went in the air as far up as four thousand yards..."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Gouvion, Jean Baptiste, 1747-1792

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