1To Benjamin Franklin from the Board of Treasury, 29 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society The inclosed Resolutions were referred by Congress to the Board of Treasury with Direction to take Order thereon. The impractibility of executing the Work in this part of the World obliges the Board to forward them to you with an earnest request to have the Medals voted struck as soon as possible with such Devices as may be judged emblematical of the...