Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from Pierre Landais?, 1780.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1780

Description:

Denies having received instructions from M. Le Ray de Cahumont to put himself under the command of Capt. John Paul Jones, or to fulfil Benjamin Franklin's orders of July 28, 1779. Mem. 1p.

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 XI Page 19

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)