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Author Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Title Letter, 1786 May 2, Philadelphia [Penn.], to Mrs. [Jane] Mecom, Boston, [Mass.] [manuscript]
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 Manuscripts  Mss C 373     AVAILABLE
Description 1 ALS ; 24 cm.
Access Access to original document is restricted: Use digital image & transcription in Register.
Summary Short letter from Benjamin Franklin to his sister stating that he has sent two volumes of his papers that were printed in London. Franklin also notes that Jane's grandson is employed in writing for him and that Temple is establishing a farm. Record includes a sheet with extracts copied from other letters written by Franklin to his sister.
Cite As: Benjamin Franklin letter to Jane Mecom, 1786, Mss C 373, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Note Transcribed version published as "Letters of Dr. Franklin, Mrs. Jane Mecom, Josiah Flagg, Richard Bache, &c." N.E.H.G. Register 27[1873]:249.
Also available online in American Ancestors Digital Library & Archives.
Subject Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794 -- Correspondence.