BIB_ID
343348
Accession number
MA 152.3
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1754 Apr. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 33.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Mr. William Strahan / Printer / London / per the Lydia / Capt. Reeve."
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
Discussing the accounting for certain expenses and referring to a shipment that was lost; discussing a young bookseller who asked Strahan for a shipment of books and suggesting that the shipments to him be small as he is a "young Lad, quite unacquainted with the World, and I fear would be much embarrass'd if he went suddenly into Dealings too deep for his Stock;" requesting that he send him the "Philosophical Transactions from the End of Martin's Abridgement 1744 to the present time....Also Dampier's Voyages, 4 Vols. 8 vo."
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