Weissenfels, Frederick, 1738-1806 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03388 Author/Creator: Weissenfels, Frederick, 1738-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 December 1786 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 23.6 x 18.9 cm. Order a Copy
Writes that when he last saw Knox, "at the Door of my present unhappy confinement," he asked for his intercession, and Knox told him that when the time arrived that he needed Knox's help, he should remind him. Believes the time is now, and that Knox can influence "sundry Gentlemen Especially his Excellency the Governor" in his favor. Writes, "I have suffered Eighteen Months imprisonment, under grievous and [necessitious?] Circumstances, reduced to Extream [sic] want in my self and family, nevertheless I Honor the Laws of my Country, neither have I any desingn [sic], to Exculpate my self from the imprudency I might have inadvertently Comitted [sic], at the Same time my Sensibility is in a lively agitation When I behold myself friendless and- Crushed under the Severest Censures, as if nothing Else but Desingn [sic], Extravagancy or Dissipation, were the occasion of my present Embarrassement [sic]." Recommends his eldest son, who bears the letter, to Knox's notice.
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