Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Peter Collinson 1764 Sept. 24.

Record ID: 
365293
Accession number: 
MA 151.11
Author: 
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1905.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 31.3 cm
Notes: 

With address panel and seal to "Peter Collinson / Gracechurch Street / London."
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: 

Saying that John Bartram "has sent a very curious Collection of Specimens of all the uncommonly valuable Plants and Trees of North America, to the King;" adding that he wished "some Notice may be taken of John's Merit;"