Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to [Elizabeth Hubbart], [18 March 1756]

To [Elizabeth Hubbart]

MS not found; reprinted from extract in Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale Catalogue, No. 61 (November 9–10, 1938), p. 30.

[Philadelphia, March 18, 1756]

I forgot whose Tickets I sent you;4 but you can write the names of the Managers, and the Numbers sign’d by each, and the 4th Class will be sent you. … I will get your Brother’s Commission sign’d by Mr. Hunter and send it from Virginia. …

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4See above, pp. 403–4, for the lottery and Tuthill Hubbart’s commission.

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