Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, 1782 May 23.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1782-05-23

Description:

Office of Finance. Gives his reasons for requesting that none of the six millions appropriated by the French for the use of the United States, be applied to the payment of M. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais's claim. L.S. 3p.

Language:

English

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

Rights:

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

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume VI Page 27

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)