History 2123 [233]. American Society in the New Nation, 1763-1840
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History 2123 [233] Reading Guide and Electronic Reserve Reading Links
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- Guidelines for Writing a Critical Analysis of a Primary Document
- History 2123: Primary Document Collections
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- Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide from the Chicago Manual of Style
- Bowdoin Library Chicago Quick Guide for the Notes and Bibliography style
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, West Bradford, Penn., dated London, April 22, 1771. private collection.
I am much obliged by your kind Present of curious Seeds. They were welcome Gifts to some of my Friends.— I send you herewith some of the new Barley lately introduced into this Country, & now highly spoken of. I wish it may be found of use with us.—
I was the more pleas’d to see in your Letter the Improvement of our Paper, having had a principal Share in establishing that Manufacture among us many years ago, by the Encouragement I gave it—
If in anything I can serve you here, it will be a Pleasure to.
Your obliged Friend and humble Servant,
BFranklin