Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from Francis Coffyn, 1781 October 16.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1781-10-16

Description:

Dunkirk. Money furnished American prisoners; letter from John Adams stating that no more prisoners must be sent to Amsterdam; question of where to send them. Enclosing a letter from Thomas Beer who is destitute and wishes to emigrate to America. A.L.S. 2p.

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:

Dunkirk

Rights:

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

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume V Page 56

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)