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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00562 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1 April 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 20.9 cm Order a Copy

Thanks him for his letter, which Samuel Shaw delivered. When she had not heard from him for two posts she began to worry. She loves him more than ever, and will send the goods he requested in his previous letter. Details her plans to be inoculated against smallpox. Had hoped to go to a hospital in Brookline, where Doctor Gardner promised he would see her every day. But this hospital is now perhaps going to be used only to inoculate soldiers. In that case she plans to go to a hospital in Salem. Wishes he had taken care of the business with Mr. Hichborn himself, and discusses other personal business.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Gardner, Joseph, ?-1788
Hichborn, Benjamin, 1746-1817

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