BIB_ID
365198
Accession number
MA 151.2
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1748 Oct. 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 23.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary
Thanking him for the books and pamphlets he sent for the Library Company; expressing his pleasure that his "Electrical Experiments were acceptable to the Society, and shall be glad to see the Ingenious Mr. Watson's new Piece on the that Subject, when he thinks fit to publish it. Of late we have done but little here in that Way; but possibly may resume those Enquiries this coming Winter, as the approaching Peace gives us a prospect of being more at Ease in our Minds: If any thing new arises among us, I shall not fail to communicate it to you." relating news of mutual acquaintances.
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