Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress, 1781 November 7.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1781-11-07

Description:

Philadelphia. Resolution, directing the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to prepare a sketch of emblems of the United States; French Alliance to be inscribed upon the marble column at Yorktown. Attested copy S. Lewis R. Morris, Secretary. 1p.

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 66

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)