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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03979 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: Trenton, New Jersey Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 September 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : address ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

In dramatic terms, expresses how much she misses Henry and speculates on the hopelessness of life if one of them should die before the other. Writes, "I have just finished a pretty long letter to our charming daughter [Lucy], hers to me are the most delightful treat I have ever received, save one correspondence still dearer." Notes she is staying with the Ogdens and comments on family matters. Writes, "Congress have proceeded no further in the arrangement of the government a circumstance very alarming to the well affected and highly encouraging to the malcontents in this state they have already called county meetings, alledging [sic] that the system must be a bad one or the congress would organize it..." Comments on their children's sleeping arrangements: Julia with Lucy, Marcus in a cot by Lucy's bed, and Washington with his nurse in another room.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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