BIB_ID
159453
Accession number
MA 152.20
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1775 Jul. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.3 x 19.4 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso "Benj. Franklin 1775."
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
Written at the bottom of what appears to be a printed receipt or ledger sheet.
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
Written at the bottom of what appears to be a printed receipt or ledger sheet.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan at the Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker sale in Philadelphia, December 14, 1905, lot. 284.
Summary
"You are now a member of Parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have ready begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look at your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations. You and I have long been friends. But you are now my Enemy and I am, Yours."
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