Benjamin Franklin Papers

Vote of Thanks from Harvard College, 30 September 1776: résumé

Vote of Thanks from Harvard College

Text in William C. Lane, “Harvard College and Franklin,” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, X (1907), 238–9.

<Sept. 30, [1776]: The President and Fellows vote their thanks to Franklin for the gift, transmitted by James Bowdoin, of Vattel’s Droit des gens,6 and ask Bowdoin to present him with a copy of their vote.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. See above, Dumas to BF, May 17, 1775, and Bowdoin to BF, Aug. 19, 1776.

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    Vote of Thanks from Harvard College, 30 September 1776: résumé
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    30 September 1776

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    “Vote of Thanks from Harvard College, 30 September 1776: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-22-02-0376. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 22, March 23, 1775, through October 27, 1776, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London:: Yale University Press, 1982, p. 635.]

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