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Lot 714
Sale 5520 - Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 23, 2008
7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
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$1,700
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1 piece. 1 piece.
Autograph Letter Signed. Hewson, Mary. July 31, 1785. 1 p., 4to; slightly toned. To Benjamin Franklin, touching on her forthcoming embarkment to America, addressed to Franklin on verso. 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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