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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05039-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 June 1791
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to John Hills
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written by Knox as Secretary of War to Captain [John] Hills, who was surveying a route for a canal from the Connecticut River to Boston. References Hills's letter of 23 June (GLC02437.05022), which gave him satisfaction. Writes, "In a work similar to the one on which you are employed, so remote from the contemplations of people generally, and of such magnitude, a person whose mind expands to the idea of its practicability and execution, runs no small danger of incurring strong and perpetual ridicule." States that Hills's last letter makes him believe something substantial is possible. Hopes his calculations are accurate, and asks him to write once a week.
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