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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04481 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 January 1790 Pagination: 1 p. ; 22.8 x 17.6 cm. Order a Copy

Thanks Knox for a previous letter. States that his current business prevents him from writing a long letter and "occupies me to much at to render me almost a stranger to what is passing either in the gay or political world."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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