“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
