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From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 5 February 1775

To a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia

Minutebook copy: Library Company of Philadelphia

London Feby: 5th: 1775

Gentlemen

I received your Favour of Decr: 16. with the Bills Barclay & Mitchell on Harvey & Co: for sixty Pounds which is carried to your Credit. I am glad my little Services have been acceptable and every future Opportunity of continuing them will be a Pleasure to, Gentlemen, Your and the Company’s assured Friend, and most obedient Servant

B Franklin

Messrs: Clarkson Hewes & Jones3

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. For Matthew Clarkson, Josiah Hewes, and Robert Strettell Jones see above, respectively, X, 225 n; XIX, 152 n; XVIII, 18 n.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 5 February 1775
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    5 February 1775

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 5 February 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0256. [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. 468.]

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