Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress Committee of Foreign Affairs, 1779.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1779

Description:

Philadelphia. Resolution of Congress, calling upon the Commissioners for information of their proceedings with M. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; sends journals and gazettes. Query whether no American privateer will retaliate on the coast of England for outrages committed by Great Britain on the American coast. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln's militia did well in attack on Gen. Augustine Prevost. A.L.S. James Lovell. 4p. In quadruplicate.

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

Geographic Subject:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

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

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume III Page 21

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)