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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.10473 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0021] June-December 1779 |
| Title | Elegiac lines, inscrib'd to Mrs. Knox, occasioned by the death of her infant daughter, who deceas'd near Pluckemin N. Jersey July 2 1779 |
| Date | ca. 2 July 1779 |
| Document Type | Miscellany |
| Content Description | Signed "JBC." "This little Cherub like some blooming flower/ The soft Exotic of an happier clime/ Shrunk from the dawn of beauteous Childhood Hour/ And, drooping sought It's native realms sublime..." |
| Subjects | Women's History Children and Family Death Poetry |
| People | Knox, Lucy Flucker (1756-1824) |
| Theme | Women in American History; Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |