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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Mrs. Walker

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04001 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 October 1788 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 16.9 cm Order a Copy

Written in the third person and signed in text. Thanks Walker for her offer to sell a valise, a double barrel gun, and swords. Writes, "[Knox] begs leave to decline purchasing as he has not the least occasion for either of those articles."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Walker, Mrs., fl. 1788

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