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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.07336
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0141] September-December 1799 
Title Alden Bradford to Henry Knox on business, family and military news
Date 8 December 1799
Author Bradford, Alden (1765-1843)  
Recipient Knox, Henry  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document; Government document
Content Description Bradford tells Knox that "Mr. Wood has returned from Boston without the volume, which I mentioned to you I expected." He wants Knox to pass on to Knox's daughter Lucy that he will "be on the last of December." Bradford also says "I heard it mentioned by a gentleman lately from Boston, that Mr. Secy. Pickering and Genl Hamilton kept back some dispatches from France several weeks, when the President was at Quincy, which related to the affairs of the Envoys; an in consequence of which must ensure attaches to those Gentlemen. They are opposed to the Embassy, I imagine."
Subjects Diplomacy  XYZ Affair  Global History and Civics  France  Quasi-war  Women's History  Library  Government and Civics  President  Politics  
People Bradford, Alden (1765-1843)  Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Place written Wiscasset, Maine
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Government & Politics; Women in American History; Children & Family; Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859