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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05148-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 September 1791
- Author/Creator
- Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.3 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Asks Knox's pardon "for the intrusion of a letter on business yesterday morning - I had not heard 'till late in the afternoon of your House being a House of Mourning, or I shou[l]d never have broke in on you at such a season." This is in reference to the death of Knox's son Marcus (see GLC02437.05152 and .05162). Sends his sympathies. Tells Knox that "true indeed is the observation of the Poet that We are all Pensioners on the bounty of an hour. Such are the terms on which He who Wills all things gave us life; and we must submit."
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
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