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Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to Comte Jean Baptiste D'Estaing

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09972 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter Date: 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 32.6 x 20.2 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses the Society of the Cincinnati and asks about the French Royal Navy. Date previously inferred, written in pencil. Noted as a copy in the docket and is missing half of the docket sheet.

D'Estaing, Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, 1729-1794
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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