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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.02942 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0071] January-March 1784 |
| Title | Thomas Randall to Henry Knox regarding his planned voyage to China |
| Date | 4 February 1784 |
| Author | Randall, Thomas (d. 1811) |
| Recipient | Knox, Henry |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Captain Randall expresses his gratitude to Knox and his family: "To find an asylum that enabled me to recover my feelings in so distressed a situation, when the calumniating tongue of the world was endeavoring to ruin me forever, was a protection of which my heart will ever retain the most lively sense..." Notes that the following day, he and Samuel Shaw will depart for China (Shaw was a commercial agent on this voyage for a group of Boston and New York merchants). Includes an autograph note signed by Shaw to Knox: "I have everything to thank you for on my own account- but your good ness to the writer of the aforegoing letter is an addition, which will ever dwell on my mind with increasing pleasure." |
| Subjects | Revolutionary War General Friendship Corruption and Scandal Asia Travel Commerce Merchants and Trade |
| People | Randall, Thomas (d. 1811) Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Foreign Affairs |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |