BIB_ID
159463
Accession number
MA 152.17
Creator
Franklin, William, 1731-1813.
Display Date
1769 Jan. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed "by Mr. Wharton."
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan at the Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker sale in Philadelphia, December 14, 1905, lot. 284.
Summary
Apologizing for not having written sooner; relating news of the Scottish portrait painter Cosmo Alexander and reporting on the work he has been doing in America; introducing him to Samuel Wharton, a Philadelphia merchant, who is delivering this letter; saying he is reluctant to express his views on the state of America in a letter but will let Mr. Wharton bring the news; thanking him for all the news of Parliament; expressing his condolences on the death of his daughter.
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