BIB_ID
343563
Accession number
MA 152.23
Creator
Franklin, William, 1731-1813.
Display Date
1780 May 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 32.6 cm
Notes
Address panel to "William Strahan, Esqre M.P. / New Street / Shoe Lane / London / Vigilant."
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
Advising him of monies drawn on his account; saying that there is "no News of any Consequence but what you will see in the public Papers. If what is contained in that published this Day (as brought from the West Indies) prove true it must be attended with the greatest Advantages to the British Interest."
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