Friday, October 7, 2016

James Rivington to Henry Knox, December 1, 1774

“The Friendly Address” I do not send to you, for fear of hurting your interest: it was forwarded to Messrs. Mills & Hicks to be printed. My reasons for not troubling you with these very warm, high-seasoned pamphlets is that your very numerous friends on the patriot interest may be greatly disgusted at your distributing them; but if you are not so very nice, as I supposed, from the state of your interest, &c, and are willing to have these sort of articles, I will secure them for you from time to time. Pray explain yourself on this head directly, for I mean to show every expression of my attention to you.

SOURCE: Francis Samuel Drake, Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, p. 13

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