Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature, 18 February 1774

To a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature

AL (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society

London, Feb. 18. 1774

Gentlemen

I am favour’d with yours of Nov. 19. advising of your Draft for £210 10s. 5d. which is accepted and will be duly paid.8

I am happy to find that my small Services have been acceptable to the Society. With my best Wishes for the Success of your laudable Undertaking, and great Esteem for your Selves, I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant

Messrs Abel James and Benja Morgan

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. The committee’s letter, now lost, was in reply to BF’s the previous July (above, XX, 297), informing the managers that they might draw on the proceeds of the silk auction.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature, 18 February 1774
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature
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    18 February 1774

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature, 18 February 1774,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0037. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 21, January 1, 1774, through March 22, 1775, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, p. 106.]

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