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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Samuel Holden Parsons

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03121 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript letter Date: 29 March 1785 Pagination: 7 p. : Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Later copy of GLC02437.03120. Contains a note at the top of page one written by the transcriber of this letter at a later date: "The parts between parentheses are from the rough draught in my possession of Knox's letter to Parson's- The other parts I have had transcribed from Parsons copy of the original which he sent to me in Oct 1860."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1737-1789

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