Autograph letter signed from James Woodmason to Benjamin Franklin, written from London and dated 4 January 1780
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Mss.B.F85inventory05, XVII, 13, ‘Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 5 — Letters to Franklin’
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Autograph letter signed from James Woodmason to Benjamin Franklin, written from London and dated 4 January 1780
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
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A collection of letters to Benjamin Franklin dated December 1779-1780.
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Included in the collection is an autograph letter signed from James Woodmason to Benjamin Franklin, written from London and dated 4 January 1780. In the letter, Woodmason notes that he has shipped the paper, adding that M. Beaumarchais’s agent, M. Le Tailleir, returns to England in three weeks and will take charge to any letters. He also notes that he has purchased Baskerville type for Voltaire’s works, before going on to discuss the superiority of English paper over others. He concludes by stating that recent talk concerning peace has been very confident.
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2 pp.
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Bequeathed to William Temple Franklin by Benjamin Franklin in his will of 17 July 1788. The papers were stored at Champlost, a country estate owned by George Fox who agreed to take care of them for William Temple Franklin. Temple Franklin took a selection of letters and documents to prepare an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin but died without returning to the United States of America. After his death on 25 May 1823, the manuscripts in his possession were discovered in London and eventually given to the Library of Congress. The remaining material at Champlost was formally bequeathed to Fox who in turn left the papers to his children, Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox. The MSS were given to the American Philosophical Society by Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox in 1840. A second large grouping of documents were given to the Society in 1936 as a gift from Franklin and Nannie Bache.
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