Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to Marat, 13 March 1779

To Marat

ALS: The 19th Century Shop, Baltimore, Maryland (1991)

Passy, March 13, 1779

Sir

I think my self much honour’d by the Invitation, and shall endeavour to be present at the farther Exhibition of those ingenious Experiments, when I am informed of the Day and Hour appointed by the Committee.7 I am, with great Esteem Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant

B Franklin

To the Representative of the Author of Experiments on the igneous Fluid

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7See Marat’s letter inviting BF, printed above, before March 13.

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