Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to William Dillwyn, 20 July 1774: résumé

To William Dillwyn3

Summary printed in Sotheby & Co. auction catalogue, December 6, 1965, p. 52.

<Craven Street, July 20, 1774: A note in the third person, presenting his compliments and asking Dillwyn to send by the bearer “the Papers he was so kind as to offer Dr. F. the Sight of.”>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. The Quaker opponent of the slave trade who carried Smith’s letter above, May 13.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    From Benjamin Franklin to William Dillwyn, 20 July 1774: résumé
    Author
    Franklin, Benjamin
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    Dillwyn, William
    Date
    20 July 1774

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to William Dillwyn, 20 July 1774: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0123. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 21, January 1, 1774, through March 22, 1775, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, p. 243.]