Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Bernard, 9 April 1764

From Francis Bernard

Letterbook copy: Harvard College Library

Boston, Ap 9. 1764

Sir

I am favoured with yours of the 28th of March2 and have ordered £12 12s. philadelphia currency to be paid to Mr. Williams for which I am obliged to you. The present state of the College here makes it more expedient to send my Son to philadelphia: but I am desirous he may be boarded where he may be under a proper restraint. I have heard that Dr. Ellison3 takes boarders: I should like to have him with the Doctor for whom I have a great regard: I should be obliged to you if you would speak to him if it is proper, and let me know his answer. Give me leave to trouble you to send the inclosed by the first Vessel bound for Madeira.4 I am &c.

B Franklin Esqr.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. See above, pp. 133–4.

3. For Francis Alison, vice-provost of the College of Philadelphia, see above, IV, 470 n.

4. Apparently a letter to a mercantile house at Madeira; see below, p. 178.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Bernard, 9 April 1764
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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Bernard, 9 April 1764,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-11-02-0037. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 11, January 1, through December 31, 1764, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 153.]

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