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- GLC#
- GLC01722
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 19, 1753
- Author/Creator
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Title
- to William Smith
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Franklin thanks Smith for a copy of his A General Idea of the College of Mirania. Assures him of the quality of the education of Smith's pupils, Col. Martin's sons, at the College and Academy of Philadelphia. Mentions in particular teachers "Mr. Allison" (formerly of Edinburgh and Glasgow) and Theophilus Grew and gives him some particulars of the libraries and his financing of the Academy.
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