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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04791-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 December 1790
- Author/Creator
- Breck, Samuel, 1747-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 22.4 cm, Width: 18.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Thanks the Knoxes for their hospitality toward his daughter. Reports that things in Boston are quiet and wishes the same for Virginia "but unfortunately Resolutions [regarding federal assumption of state debts] breath another Spirit. it is to be hoped their disorder will not become epidemical." The Congress is meeting the next day. Says Congress "cannot fail since no question of permanent residence will disturbe them."
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