To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, [24 February 1774]: abstract
From Jan Ingenhousz
Abstract: Ingenhousz letterbook, Gemeente-Archief, Breda
[February 24, 17749]
I am in the utmost consternation about his allarming circonstances and begg to be informed of them.1
to Dr. Benjamin Franklin cravenstreet London
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
9. The date at the head of a page that contains five abstracts of letters written on the same day, in Dutch, French, and English, of which this is the fourth. BF’s reply is below, March 18.
1. The news of the scene at the Cockpit and of BF’s loss of his post had apparently just reached Vienna, where Ingenhousz was physician to the imperial family. Immediately after this résumé he entered one of a letter to Sir John Pringle, in which he expressed the same alarm.