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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.05535 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0111] July 1792 |
| Title | Henry Knox to Lucy Knox about his health, family matters and the activities of Tom Paine |
| Date | 12 July 1792 |
| Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Mentions being "attacked with the cursed fever" last week, but is now better. Wishes he could be with her and the family. Informs that Mrs. Smith is doing better after being very ill with a "disorder in her bowels." Writes that "Our President [George Washington], Mrs. Washington and family departed yesterday..." Writes of events in England and France exclaiming, "What unpleasant work on the frontiers of France! - England will go into confusion - do you not think Tom Paine has excited great commotion in mens minds to be honored with a royal Proclamation against his writings." |
| Subjects | Revolutionary War General Health and Medical Disease Women of the Founding Era Women's History President First Lady France French Revolution Global History and Civics Literature and Language Arts Government and Civics |
| People | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Knox, Lucy Flucker (1756-1824) Washington, George (1732-1799) Washington, Martha (1731-1802) Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) |
| Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Theme | Women in American History; Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Foreign Affairs; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Additional Information | Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", published in 1791 and 1792, argued that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests. It caused a furor in England and Paine was tried in absentia, convicted for seditious libel against the Crown and sentenced to hanging. He escaped the sentence, having already departed for France, where he spent the next 10 years. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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