Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Niles, 6 August 1778

From Robert Niles

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Nantes Augt. 6. 1778

Sir

I arived at Paimbeauf on the third Instt. and shall make all possible dispatch to proceed on my Voyge. Inclos’d you have a Bill to the amount of the Money remitted for the purchase of Types.4 I am Sir Your very Humble Servant

Robt Niles

Amt. of the Bill £1364. 13 s.o5

Addressed: The Hble Benjamin Franklin Esqre. / Paris

Endorsed: Capt. Niles and Watson about Types

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. For the use of Connecticut printers; see XXVI, 547 n.

5. Following this is the computation 1364.13 minus 470.13.0 totaling 894.0.0.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Niles, 6 August 1778
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    Niles, Robert
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    6 August 1778

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Niles, 6 August 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-27-02-0206. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 27, July 1 through October 31, 1778, ed. Claude A. Lopez. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, pp. 227–228.]

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