Benjamin Franklin Papers
Documents filtered by: Recipient="Franklin, Benjamin" AND Period="Colonial"
sorted by: editorial placement
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0164

To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 6 October 1749

From James Logan

Letterbook copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

8br [October] 6th [1749]

My friend B Fr

I absolutely forgot to mention what I principally intended yesterday. Thy telling me what were the most likely paper Mills to Supply me with 6 or 7 sheets or more of Pastboard of about 19 or 20 inches in length and 15 in breadth and what rolling presses were [in] town to smooth them, an exact account of which to be prepared to day and Sent in the Morning with thy proposal for the Academy will very much [oblige] thine Affectionately

J L

Be pleas’d also to inform me what the Translators name of the fr[ench] Polybius is. Tis M. Folard in 6 Voll. 4to with many Cuts.1

1. Histoire de Polybe, translated from the Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier, with a commentary by M. de Folard ,(6 vols., Paris, 1727–30); in Loganian Lib. Cat.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Franklin Papers
    Title
    To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 6 October 1749
    Author
    Logan, James
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    6 October 1749

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 6 October 1749,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0164. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 3, January 1, 1745, through June 30, 1750, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 393–394.]

    More between these correspondents