It is but justice to myself to say, that while I experience
the strongest sensations of gratitude for your forbearance and liberality, that
it is with extreme inconvenience that I pay so heavy an arrear for property
destroyed by events which I could no more control than I could the great
operations of nature, [nor] am I more responsible for them: I mean the war. In
paying you, I feel inclination and duty blended together. Had my pecuniary
situation admitted of the measure, you should long ago have received the amount
due.
SOURCE: Francis Samuel Drake, Life and
Correspondence of Henry Knox, p. 14
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