From Benjamin Franklin to Browns & Collinson, 28 October 1779
To Browns & Collinson1
Copy: Library of Congress
Passy, Oct. 28. 1779.
Gentlemen,
I send you enclos’d a Bill of Exchange for 100£ sterling, with which please to credit my Account.2 With great Esteem, I am Gentlemen y. m. o. & m. h. s.
Messrs. Browns and Collinson.
1. BF maintained a small account with his London bankers: XXIII, 18n.
2. These were funds which BF intended to cover William Caslon’s bill for type. See BF to Fizeaux, Grand & Cie., Oct. 29, below.