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To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Maty, 6 May 1771: résumé

From Matthew Maty3

ALS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

<British Museum, May 6, 1771. Sends an enclosure that he has received for Franklin from a newly created society of sciences in Rotterdam.4>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Secretary of the Royal Society and a sublibrarian of the British Museum; see above, XIII, 451 n.

4. The Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbergeerte (Batavian Society of Experimental Science). BF was made a corresponding member on April 28; the Society then inquired, in the letter Maty forwarded, whether he would accept the invitation. When it found that he would, it issued a formal announcement, dated June 11, which is among BF’s papers in the APS.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Maty, 6 May 1771: résumé
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    Maty, Matthew
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    6 May 1771

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Maty, 6 May 1771: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-18-02-0067. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 18, January 1 through December 31, 1771, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 100.]

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