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Lot 713
Sale 5520 - Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 23, 2008
7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$4,000 -
7,000
Price Realized
$6,500
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1 piece. 1 piece.
Autograph Letter Signed. Franklin, B[enjamin]. N.p., Oct. 9, [17]67. 1 p, 4to. Clean and clear. To Mary Stevenson [addressed in body as Polly, later Mary Hewson]: "I write this line just to aquaint our dear Polly that I left her amiable friend Miss Henchel well at Calais..." Mary Stevenson, later Mary Hewson, was the daughter of Franklin's London landlady, Margaret Stevenson, with whom he conducted long-lasting intimate and intellectual correspondence.
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