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To Benjamin Franklin from Gabriel-Louis Galissard de Marignac: Bill for Benjamin Franklin Bache’s Schooling, [5 January–5 May 1780]

From Gabriel-Louis Galissard de Marignac: Bill for Benjamin Franklin Bache’s Schooling4

DS: American Philosophical Society

[January 5–May 5, 1780]

Monsieur Franklin doit pour la pension de Monsieur son petit fils depuis le 5e Janvier au 5e. May 1780—4. Mois— £174— 6— ″—5
Papier, encre & plumes 12— ″— 0—
Couteau ″— 6— ″—
Patins 2— 6— ″—
gands ″— 13— 6—
 
pr: voir le géant & les combats des bêtes6 1— 3— ″—
Carton ″— 3— ″—
une paire boucles de coté ″— 9— ″—
pr: racommoder ses bas 1— 3— ″—
pr: un chapeau & le ruban autour 3— 17— ″—
ruban de queuë ″— 6— ″—
Estampes & Cahiers 1— 3— ″—
blanchissages 4. Mois 6— ″— ″—
Maitre de danse 6— ″— ″—
Maitre de dessin 13— ″— ″—
Maitre d’anglois 21— 15— 3—
Perruquier pendt. l’année 12— 10— ″—
Marchand Drapier pr: ses habits 24— 12— 6—
pr: le cordonnier 20— ″— ″—
pr: le compte du Tailleur 66— 9— ″—
Dimanches & argent donné pr: la foire 9— ″— ″—
pr: son portrait 15— 10— ″—
pr: lui avoir arraché des dents & fourni le nécessaire pr: les nétoyer 7— 9— 3—
£389— 18— ″—

389 l.t. 18 s. argt: court: font argt: de france le louis à 14 l.t. 10 s. 6—

£644—2 s: pr: acquit Marignac

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4For Marignac’s previous statement, which covered the period from Oct. 5, 1779, see XXX, 480–1.

5On a separate page, BF multiplied this amount by three, making 522 l.t. 18 s., the yearly sum he must have meant to charge RB.

6Did BFB visit a circus? Two years later, he recorded in his diary that he had seen “a giant who was 7 feet tall, whose arms were as thick as my body, but he was so dirty I was obliged to leave, he disgusted me.” BFB Diary, Aug. 1, 1782, through Sept. 14, 1785, entry of Aug. 27, 1782. An English translation of the diary is at the APS.

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