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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05125-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 August 1791
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 30.3 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Reports that the bank scripts have been forwarded. Believes he took advantage of the high prices they were bringing and sold them. Says he "made prospects this day for the purchase of the other million, but I think they will not sell, or will ask much higher than ten Cents." Wants to know the highest price he'll go. Tells him General David Cobb will not accept the "marshallcy" because "it would not give him salt for his family." Says that the office offered to General David Brooks is not lucrative enough to support a family.
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