Negotiations with Madame Laval
Document 1794Mentions the subject that gives Colonel Walker much anxiety. Madame Laval is making negotiations that would exonerate Walker from responsibility, but without effect. The sum is uncertain. At present she demands $40,000, a sum not probable for him to be able to obtain.
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Philadelphia Feby 1794
My dear Sir
I should instantly have answered your favor of the last week, had I not expected that some result might have been had upon the Subject which gives you so much anxiety
Macomb has been endeavouring to make such negotiations as would exonorate you from all responsibility, but hitherto without effect. The [strikethrough: man] now declines the one mere a speculation of the agreement made with you whether the one succeed is uncertain. But if he does not at this moment, he may probably before you can be called upon for Payments, and in the last resort, the bargain might perhaps be relinquished
But at present the demand is [undecipherable] dollars, as from whence it is not probable the one be able to obtain it.
I am my dear Sir
Your friend &
H Knox
Colo Malcolm
[Phila 24 Feby 1794]
[Honors]
[Free H Knox]
[FREE]
[Colo Malcolm New York]
[seal]
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Mentions the subject that gives Colonel Walker much anxiety. Madame Laval is making negotiations that would exonerate Walker from responsibility, but without effect. The sum is uncertain. At present she demands $40,000, a sum not probable for him to be able to obtain.
Date
02/04/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1794020400001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Walker
Henry Knox
Colonel Walker
Madame Laval
Secretary of War
Notable locations
New York
Philadelphia
Notable items
negotiations
exonerate
agreement

