Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress, 1779 June.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1779-06

Description:

Philadelphia. Enclosing Acts of Congress of June 5th and 10th by which Dr. Franklin is directed to pay certain sums to M. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais for supplies purchased and sent to America. L.S. John Jay, President. 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:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

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

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume III Page 19

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)