BIB_ID
343357
Accession number
MA 152.5
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1762 Dec. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Mr. Strahan / Printer / Newstreet, Shoe Lane / London / per Capt. Friend."
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
Relating details of his ten-week sail from Portsmouth to America; referring to "...some Poetic Pieces of our young Geniuses" which were sent to him [Strahan] and which he encourages him to publish; commenting on the British military victory in Havana; saying that "I hope it will, in the Making of Peace, procure us some Advantages in Commerce or Possession that may in time countervail the heavy Loss we have sustained in that Enterprize;" asking for news of "all he Politicks;" adding that he hopes, in two years time, to "remove to England."
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