Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from Robert R. Livingston, 1781 December 16.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1781-12-16

Description:

Philadelphia. Wilmington, a center of Toryism, evacuated, leaving the North Carolina tories to the mercy of resentment of their countrymen. Desiring a sketch for a memorial pillar to be erected at Yorktown. Encloses an ordinance of Congress prohibiting the importation of all British goods not captured. L.S. 3p. In duplicate and triplicate. Printed in Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Wharton, V, 53.

Provenance:

Bequeathed by Benjamin Franklin to his grandson William Temple Franklin. Bequeathed by William Temple Franklin to George Fox who in turn passed on possession to his children, Charles and Mary. Found at the Fox family estate at Champlost in a stable loft by Mrs. Holbrook around 1862 and given to her by Eliza Fox subsequently. Sold by her son George O. Holbrook to a committee of friends of the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1903 and gifted by them to the University the same year.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Letters

Geographic Subject:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume V Page 81-82

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)