Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 28 August 1772: résumé

To a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia

ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress

<London, August 28, 1772: Encloses a bill of lading of the books for the Library Company. Endorsed to Robert Strettell Jones, Samuel Rhoads, and Josiah Hewes.3>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. For the list of books see the letter above of April 27 from the committee, which then had a different composition; the new group wrote to BF on May 28.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 28 August 1772: résumé
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    Library Company of Philadelphia
    Date
    28 August 1772

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 28 August 1772: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-19-02-0189. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 19, January 1 through December 31, 1772, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1975, p. 289.]

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