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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05511 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 June 1792 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 22.9 x 18.4 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses seeing Knox before he returns to Boston. Writes, "I have deferred writing to you since I came here - and as I now promise myself that happiness next Monday evening, I shall still defer for a viva voce communication..."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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