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To Benjamin Franklin from H. Sykes, 20 August 1779

From H. Sykes3

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Place du Palais Royall, August the 20th. 1779

Sir,

In Consequence of Your Permission, I take the Liberty to Acquaint You that my Large Electricall Machine is quite Compleated. It was to have been deliverd on Monday next, but I shall keep it till Wednesday or Thursday, in hopes that you will do me the Honnour to Comme and see it, and favor me with Your Opinion on its Construction.

I have the Honnour of being Sir, Your Most Obedient humble Servant

H Sykes

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin, / Deputé des Etats Uniees de L’Amerique / en Son Hotel / à Passy

Notation: h. Sykes Paris 20. 1779.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. This is the last extant letter from or to the English optician who had settled in Paris and had a shop in the Palais Royal (XXVIII, 430–1n). BF had bought a barometer from Sykes for which he paid 36 l.t. on July 23: Cash Book, Account XVI, XXVI, 3.

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from H. Sykes, 20 August 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-30-02-0193. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 30, July 1 through October 31, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 249.]

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