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Ben Franklin -Reply
From:
Nancy Pope <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:46:00 -0500
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>>>Sometime about 1780, Ben Franklin wrote a letter to a George Whatley,
     a Philadelphia optician, explaining to him how he had invented bifocal
     spectacles. . . .Does any one out there have any idea who now
     possesses this letter?

Try contacting the Library of Congress - Manuscripts Division. They have a
nice selection of Franklin correspondence. However, I don't believe that
they loan.

Nancy Pope
Museum Program Specialist
National Postal Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560

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