BIB_ID
107404
Accession number
MA 554.4
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1771 Apr. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of their "Catalogue of Books to be purchased for the Library Company. The Collection is making with all possible Expedition, but I fear will scarce be ready to go with this Ship - I beg you would not imagine it giving me Trouble when you Send me the Commands of the Company. If I can execute them to their Satisfaction, it will, on the contrary, be a very great Pleasure to me: For I have many Reasons to wish well to the Institution;" adding that he hopes to send, with the books, an estimate of the cost for the "European Transactions and the French Cyclopedia;" enclosing an accounting "as it stands in my Books here."
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