BIB_ID
343361
Accession number
MA 152.6
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1763 Feb. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 32.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Mr. William Strahan / Printer / New Street / Shoe Lane / London."
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter references a peace treaty signed November 3, 1762 in which Dominica, Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent and Tobago would become British; Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Lucia would be French; Havana would revert to Spanish dominion; all of Florida, Louisiana and all of Canada would be ceded by France to Britain.
Part of a collection of letters of Benjamin and William Franklin to William Strahan; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter references a peace treaty signed November 3, 1762 in which Dominica, Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent and Tobago would become British; Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Lucia would be French; Havana would revert to Spanish dominion; all of Florida, Louisiana and all of Canada would be ceded by France to Britain.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan at the Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker sale in Philadelphia, December 14, 1905, lot. 284.
Summary
Sending his congratulations "on the glorious Peace you have made, the most advantageous for the British Nation in my Opinion, of any your Annals have recorded. The Places you have left or restor'd to the French I look upon to be so much in our Power in Case of a future War, as to be so many Hostages or Pledges of their good Behavior."
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