Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from J. Cusson Ainé, 17 May 1777: résumé

From J. Cusson Ainé2

LS: American Philosophical Society

<Carcassonne, May 17, 1777, in French: I manufacture textiles and blankets suitable for America.3 A number of French dealers have asked for them and, I know, sold them profitably to the Americans, whom I should like to see profiting directly from my inexpensive goods. My offer would have a better reception if it came under your auspices. I enclose a price list.4 Endorsed by Franklin: “Proposal about Cloths.”>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. The signature is hard to decipher. But a signed printed advertisement of his, doubtless enclosed with this note, is among BF’s papers in the APS.

3. Carcassonne was at the time a major textile center.

4. The prices for different types of cloth range from 7 to 11 sols the ell. He also offers to imitate cloth if furnished with a quarter-ell sample that includes both selvages.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from J. Cusson Ainé, 17 May 1777: résumé
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    Cusson, J., l’aîné
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    17 May 1777

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from J. Cusson Ainé, 17 May 1777: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-24-02-0039. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 24, May 1 through September 30, 1777, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, pp. 58–59.]