Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress, Committee of Secret Correspondence, 1777 January 1.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1777-01-01

Description:

Baltimore. Announcing his appointment by Congress, as their Commissioner to negotiate a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with the Court of Spain. L.S. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Henry Lee, Jno. Witherspoon, William Hooper. 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.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Geographic Subject:

United States -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Rights:

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

Notes:

See full finding aid at: https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.900

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume I, Page 26

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)