John de Neufville to William Knox discussing a riot in London and general business - American History 1493-1945

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02437.00816
From Archive Folder	The Henry Knox Papers [0023] July-December 1780
Title	John de Neufville to William Knox discussing a riot in London and general business
Date	13 July 1780
Author	Neufville, John de (fl. 1779-1789)
Recipient	Knox, William
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Describes a riot in London where a library was burnt down and discusses business where he made a mistake and paid remittance to Knox on behalf of another gentleman.
Subjects	Mobs and Riots Global History and Civics Library Finance Merchants and Trade Commerce
People	Knox, William (1756-1795) Neufville, John de (fl. 1779-1789)
Theme	The American Revolution; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection	The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide Download PDF [Draft] Dear Sir In hopes that you may be safely arrived i seize the first opportunity i can to Congratulate you upon it thoug i hope long to have the Certain tiding of it & though the distance wil be henceforth greater between us than before i hope that may not cause any distance in our sentiments of friendship. I do not know whether you were yet in ____ when the last riot took place ___? They were pretty heavy but attended with as bad consequences only some prisons were burnt with ___ Mansfield I think