From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 7 March 1748
To James Logan
MS not found; abstracted in Worthington C. Ford, comp., List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress (Washington, 1905), p. 10.8
Philadelphia, March 7, 1747/8
Abstract: Pass’s9 opinion as to cost of casting cannon; favors purchasing from New England.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
8. The ALS is known to have been missing from Lib. Cong. since 1951. In Ford’s List the addressee is given as “James Logan, Trenton”—obviously a misreading of “Stenton.”
9. On John Pass, see below, p. 297 n.