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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03998 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 14 October 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : address ; 32.4 x 19.6 cm. Order a Copy

Complains that Henry has stayed away later than he had originally planned. Discusses her busy social schedule and numerous invitations, noting "Since the arrival of Mrs. Ogden I have passed my time as agreably as possible seperated [sic] from you." Understands that his business in Boston, settling with creditors, may extend until the end of the month (it is possible Henry was settling the matter of Henry Jackson's unauthorized sale of 10,000 dollars of Knox's notes). Remarks that her sister sent her a Queensware china set.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Ogden, Euphemia Morris, 1754-1818
Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810

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