BIB_ID
343345
Accession number
MA 152.2
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1749 Apr. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 37.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "Mr. William Strahan / Printer in Wine Office / Court Fleetstreet / London."
James Read was a neighbor of Franklin's and a bookseller; Read received books on consignment from Strahan and never paid for them; Strahan asked Franklin to help with the collection of the debt.
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
James Read was a neighbor of Franklin's and a bookseller; Read received books on consignment from Strahan and never paid for them; Strahan asked Franklin to help with the collection of the debt.
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
Concerning an accounting of invoices he has enclosed; discussing, at length, a debt owed to William Strahan by James Read and his [Franklin's] attempts to resolve the issues involved.
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