Francis Bernard to Benjamin Franklin regarding his son's travel from Alexandria to Boston
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- Sources
- Name
- Francis Bernard to Benjamin Franklin regarding his son's travel from Alexandria to Boston
- Description
- Letter from Massachusetts Governor Francis Bernard to Benjamin Franklin requesting assistance in arranging his son's passage from Alexandria, Virginia to Philadelphia and onwards to Boston. The letter references earlier correspondence and indicates a logistics issue with the young Bernard's travel arrangements. Contextually relevant to understanding transatlantic colonial communications and the networks of prominent American colonial figures during the pre-Revolutionary period.
- Date
- 27 December 1763
- Related To
- Benjamin Franklin
- Collection
- The Last Years of the Lordship
- Type
- Administrative Correspondence
- Date Created
- 1763-12-27
- Creator
- Francis Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts
- Audience
- Benjamin Franklin
- Identifier
- Harvard College Library (Letterbook copy)
- Language
- English