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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04391-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 15, 1789
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Marquis de Lafayette
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Knox writes that he is thankful to be able to send this letter by Count de Moustier, who was returning from his time as French minister to America. He will enclose the diplomas for the French officers in the Society of the Cincinnati. Says "The importance of the revolution in France is astonishing - one looks round in amazement and asks is it not a delusion, can it be true? This is a new Lesson to the Gods of the earth that there [distinction] is but a phantom of the imagination that an [illegible] people will know and ought to repress the abuses and oppressions of their rulers." Asks for more news on the revolution and talks about some of its implications. Encloses a letter for "Young Master Greene" from his mother Catharine Greene (not included). Postscript asks that if he knows anything of Mr. Swan to pass it along to him.
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