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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05937-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 October 1793
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Bingham and William Duer
- Place Written
- Elizabethtown, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 32.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Pages one-three contain a letter to William Bingham. Page 4 has a letter to William Duer. There is only one signature, at the end of the Duer letter. Describes his trip to Elizabethtown. Tells Bingham that Mr. Baucel, the agent to Monsieur D'Espremenil, was waiting when he arrived. Goes into the details of the quid pro quo that Duer offered to D'Espremenil (for background see GLC02437.05930). Believes the arrangement is beneficial to Bingham's interest. Reports "The fever in Philadelphia has not abated, but I do not find any dead recently whose name I am acquainted with." References receiving Duer's letter of 26 September. Reports that he wrote to Bingham and recommended the arrangement to him. Knox hopes for success.
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