Otto discusses European affairs of state with Knox

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Letter, discusses French Revolution; alludes to insurrection in England; discusses friendship with Knox.

Date

01/13/1793

Author

Louis Otto

Recipient

Henry Knox

Sent from

Paris

Repository

Pierpont Morgan Library

Collection

Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]

Document number

1793011340101

Page start

1

Notable persons

Henry Knox
Louis Otto
Mrs. [Lucy] Knox
Mrs. Otto
Philip II
Rivington

Notable locations

Paris
Republic of Holland
England
France
United States of America

Notable items

remembrance of the charming moments we have passed in your company will be always dear to us
extremely happy in an opportunity to be of some service to you in this country
convince you of the respectful regard and grateful attachment with which I have the honor to be
political digression
sat down to thank you and Mrs. Knox for the many proofs of kindness and friendship
England may give a second instance of the fall of Royal presumption before popular power
Republic of Holland
France will not resist the combined armies of the north, but she has resisted them
England will destroy her marine
abstract ideas ought to be formed of great revolutions as well as of great men and detached facts supposing them even to be true are more apt to
hour in the life of a nation
after this short space of time the body politic will be more vigorous than ever, the people more enlightened than ever, more industrious, more
who is the man that will regret the sacrifice of the tranquility and ease of a few years for the happiness of millions to come
improper to consult Rivington's papers
friendly dispositions of the French Republic for the United States of America render it particularly pleasing to me to be one of the instruments of
well known affection for a people with whom I lived so many years has probably facilitated a promotion to which my other qualifications could hardly
found to my great satisfaction that the opinion I have invariably manifested in America in our wonderful revolution were conformable to truth
judgment of the transaction in America
departure from America, I had every reason to hope that circumstances would permit my early to return to that country
total change in the diplomatic system has fixed me here for sometime
for my new appointment I have the peculiar satisfaction to continue my political intercourse with your country
hear often from a number of friends whom I flatter myself to have left in America