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From George Washington to Lucy Flucker Knox, 30 June 1787

To Lucy Flucker Knox

[Philadelphia] Saturday.
near 11 Oclock [30 June 1787]

Genl Washington presents his Compliments and best wishes to Mrs Knox. Business in the earlier part of the Morning, and company since, having deprived him of the pleasure of taking a personal leave of her begs leave, before he goes to the Convention; to wish Mrs Knox a pleasent Journey, and happy meeting with her family in New York.1

LB, DLC:GW.

1. Henry Knox left Philadelphia for New York in late May after attending the General Meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati but returned with Mrs. Knox in June. See Henry Knox to GW, 29 May and 14 August.

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    From George Washington to Lucy Flucker Knox, 30 June 1787
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    30 June 1787

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    “From George Washington to Lucy Flucker Knox, 30 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02-0219. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 5, 1 February 1787 – 31 December 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, pp. 235–236.]