Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 1 — Letters to Franklin
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CMV32916
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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 1 — Letters to Franklin
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A collection of letters sent to Benjamin Franklin between 1730 and 1776.
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The collection includes: XLII, 179. Le Roy, Jean Baptiste, 120-1800. to Benjamin Franklin, 1770 April 22. A.L. 4p. Plans for seeing Franklin in England before the end of the year. Has sent him his brother’s [Pierre LeRoy] work on the determination of longitude at sea. Promises to send him Abbe Galiani’s work, Sur les Commerces des Bles. Project to raise a statue to Voltaire before his death. Recommending his brother, the physician [Charles LeRoy], to Franklin and Mr. Pringle. (In French).
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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 took a selection of letters and documents to prepare an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin but died without returning to the United States of Americe. 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.
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Given to the American Philosophical Society in 1840 by Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox. 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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