Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Jackson, 20 May 1771: résumé

From [Charles] Jackson5

AL: University of Pennsylvania Library

<General Post Office, May 20, 1771, a note in the third person. Sends a piece of elastic gum6 with a thousand good wishes.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5Identified by the handwriting and place of origin. For Jackson see above, XIV, 301 n.

6In November BF sent Jonathan Williams, Sr., six “vessels” of elastic gum, costing £1 16s. Jour., p. 37.

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