Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Edmund Randolph

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GLC#
GLC02437.06056-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
4 March 1794
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
to Edmund Randolph
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Writes, "If the Secretary of State be the national organ, and not merely the executive for foreign [communications], is it not in his [leave] to answer the inquiries of foreign ministers relative to the publication of official communications - if not to whom is the foreign minister to apply? - To the House of Representatives? certainly not. I am uninformed whether of not, the publication be authorized; but I humbly conceive that it would be strictly proper to say so." The docket suggests a letter from a foreign minister was enclosed. Unsigned, but in Henry Knox's handwriting. GLC02437.06055 is a later copy of this letter.

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