BIB_ID
365280
Accession number
MA 151.10
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1762 Dec. 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 31.6 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.
With address panel and seal to "Peter Collinson, Esq / Gracechurch Street / London / Per the Carolina / Capt. Friend."
With address panel and seal to "Peter Collinson, Esq / Gracechurch Street / London / Per the Carolina / Capt. Friend."
Summary
Saying he has arrived home to find his family well; referring to the "great Bones at the Ohio; discussing the "great Complaint here of the Last Summer's Drought. It has occasion'd a great Scarcity of Hay, and if the Winter proves hard the Creatures must greatly suffer. Apples too have generally fail'd this Year;" thanking him for all his kindnesses to him and to his Son while they were in England.
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