BIB_ID
365293
Accession number
MA 151.11
Creator
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Display Date
1764 Sept. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 31.3 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 / Gracechurch Street / London."
With address panel and seal to "Peter Collinson / Gracechurch Street / London."
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;"
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