Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 16 November 1753

To William Strahan

MS not found; reprinted from extract in Merwin Sales Company, Catalogue No. 557 (1914), p. 16.

[Philadelphia, November 16, 1753]

I wrote to you via Bristol and desired you to bespeak some Letter and a Press for me.7 I desired Mr. Hall to look out for such a Bill for me, but he has not been able to procure one at any reasonable rate. Among the lost [long?] list of type is 300 lb. long Primer with Figures and Signs sufficient for an Almanack.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. See above, pp. 82–3.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 16 November 1753
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    Strahan, William
    Date
    16 November 1753

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 16 November 1753,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-05-02-0030. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 5, July 1, 1753, through March 31, 1755, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962, p. 115.]

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