BIB_ID
343541
Accession number
MA 152.19
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1771 Oct. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "William Strahan Esqr / Newstreet / Shoe Lane / London / B Free Franklin."
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
Saying he has arrived 'Thro' Storms and Floods...and was lodg'd miserably at an Inn: But that excellent Christian David Hume, agreable to the Precepts of the Gospel, has received the Stranger, and I now live with him at his House in the new Town most happily;" congratulating him "on certain political Events that I know give you Pleasure."
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