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Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801 to Lucy Flucker Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07085 Author/Creator: Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801 Place Written: Calcutta, India Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 5, 1798 Pagination: 5 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 18.5 cm Order a Copy

Writes about a young man traveling to America on the ship carrying this letter and discusses her daughter Harriette's health as well as the rest of her family.

Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824

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