BIB_ID
105363
Accession number
MA 151.12
Creator
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.
Display Date
1775 Mar. 28.
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Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 24.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to " Mr. Caddel Bookseller / Strand / London / Inghelterra / via Mantua."
With address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to " Mr. Caddel Bookseller / Strand / London / Inghelterra / via Mantua."
Summary
Requesting "The Last Edition of Franklin's Letters on Electricity -- & any new publication on Electricity;" reporting progress on his Etruscan work as well as his work on volcanos which he hopes to discuss with him when he returns to London in the Spring of 1776.
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