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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 |