Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 25 August 1765

From Emanuel Mendes da Costa6

ALS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Royal Society house 25 August 1765

Sir

The Committee for examining Mr. Canton’s Experiments On the Compressibility of Water are Appointed to meet at the Society’s house on Thursday next 29 Inst. at 11 O’Clock. I am Sir Your h[umble] Servant

Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Cl[erk]

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. On da Costa and the occasion for this notification, see above, p. 220.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 25 August 1765
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    Mendes da Costa, Emanuel
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    25 August 1765

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 25 August 1765,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0132. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 12, January 1, through December 31, 1765, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 247.]

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