Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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In dramatic terms, expresses how much she misses Henry and speculates on the hopelessness of life if one of them should die before the other. Writes, I have just finished a pretty long letter to our charming daughter [Lucy], hers to me are the most delightful treat I have ever received, save one correspondence still dearer. Notes she is staying with the Ogdens and comments on family matters. Writes, Congress have proceeded no further in the arrangement of the government a circumstance very alarming to the well affected and highly encouraging to the malcontents in this state they have already called county meetings, alledging [sic] that the system must be a bad one or the congress would organize it... Comments on their children's sleeping arrangements: Julia with Lucy, Marcus in a cot by Lucy's bed, and Washington with his nurse in another room.
Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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Writes that she misses him and is quite impatient for him to come home. Discusses their children and mutual friends. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.
Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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Badly misses Henry and hopes to hear from him, her only comfort being her young baby, Lucy Flucker Knox. Hopes that he cries when thinking of her hardships. Reports that William Knox, who she calls Billy, has set out for Newburg, in order to purchase stationery which he hopes to sell. Lucy and William Knox reopened the Boston bookstore that Knox had operated before the war began. They tried to sell other stationery items, but were not very successful. Notes that a shipping embargo may begin soon, but feels that it is privateering to take the goods of those innocent people who are not directly involved in this revolutionary quarrel. Mentions business debts, and worries about the state of the revolution, saying it grieves me to think you are embarked in a cause so wretchedly managed. In the postscript, which she could write only after crying, she includes a number of lines from Caspipina's Letters on the subject of yearning for a loved one.
Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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Expresses her desire for his return, articulating how much she misses him. Expects him to be accompanied by their daughter (possible Lucy): ... my heart beats with the fond idea of shortly embracing the dearest objects of my love the best of husbands and the most amiable of daughters- Notes that Mr. [Robert] Morris is in town. Comments on other acquaintances, including the Ogdens.
Author: Henry Knox
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Tells Lucy that he misses her and really looks forward to her letters every time the mail comes.
Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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Writes to her husband, who is in Boston. Misses their daughter (likely Lucy). Relates news of the Ogden family. Notes that Mrs. Green (possibly Catharine Littlefield Greene) hopes Knox will visit her on his return to New York. Remarks, Our little ones have not the measles yet, altho it is all around us.
Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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Complains that Henry has stayed away later than he had originally planned. Discusses her busy social schedule and numerous invitations, noting Since the arrival of Mrs. Ogden I have passed my time as agreably as possible seperated [sic] from you. Understands that his business in Boston, settling with creditors, may extend until the end of the month (it is possible Henry was settling the matter of Henry Jackson's unauthorized sale of 10,000 dollars of Knox's notes). Remarks that her sister sent her a Queensware china set.
Author: Lucy Flucker Knox
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Writes that Martha Washington and Nellie Calvert Custis received letters from their husbands letting them know how they are and what is happening in the war, while she is clearly unworthy of being written to. She misses their daughter Lucy, who was living in Philadelphia, but has heard that she is well. Urges him to write back. Knox was then engaged in the siege of Yorktown. The letter is not complete.
Author: Henry Knox
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Was happy to receive her last letter, though sounded as if she was in some distress; hopes the distress was simply that she missed him: This implication I hope however is the consequence of an ardent affection. I am mortified that I have been so long absent from you, but I now think that we shall be able to get away from here tomorrow. Believes that they may stop one day at Morris perhaps to make our report to the General and in two days afterwards be in Philadelphia. Sends love to the children and to the Biddle family, with whom Lucy and their children are staying.
Author: Henry Knox
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Discusses their recent exchange, noting that he had not received some of her letters due to the postman's mistake. Expresses how much he misses her, emphasizing that nothing but an obligation to his country could separate them. Mentions the threat posed by General John Burgoyne, stating that Lucy, in Boston, should get a House in the Country as a Retreat. He says he cannot be sure of visiting Lucy due to the danger of the roads and the uncertainty of his location. In closing, notes I shall always make it a rule to write you by the post, and expect the same from you.
