Requests for Information

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Requests for Information

Description

Knox tells Lincoln that he expects to be regularly and promptly informed of operations undertaken.

year created

1787

month created

01

day created

21

author

sent from location

New York

recipient

in collection

in image

notable person/group

Benjamin Lincoln
Henry Knox

notable location

New York

notable item/thing

your important engagements
solicitude
your operations
miscarriage of letters
communications
your friendship
my request
every success

notable phrase

Although I am fully impressed, my dear sir, with the idea of your important engagements, yet I take the liberty prompted by a solicitude to know your operations in succession as they arise

document number

1787012100001

page start

1

number of pages

2

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (5 pages) FDB03 (5 pages) Collection: Benjamin Lincoln Papers [unknown]
[view document] (2 pages) WFE08 (2 pages) Collection: Benjamin Lincoln Papers R: 7, F:647-648
[view document] (0 pages) [no image] Microfilm: Benjamin Lincoln Papers [unknown]

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Henry Knox New York [n/a]
Recipient Benjamin Lincoln [unknown] [n/a]