Books/2013.09-GlassArmonica/tex/_BF1772_01_17.txt
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<h2>From William Outram, January 17, 1772</h2>
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<tr><td align="right">DATE:</td><td>January 17, 1772</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">FROM:</td><td>William Outram (Captain of the <i>Liberty</i>)</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">TO:</td><td>(Ship's log?) </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">PBF:</td><td>19:38 </td></tr></table>
<p><font size="-2">William Outram was a merchant captain, master of the Virginia vessel <i>Liberty</i>.
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>Has been commissioned by the Rev. Mr. Dunlap to take care of buying and shipping a good armonica for Dunlap's son Benjamin, organist in his father's church in Virginia, and to ask Franklin where such an instrument might be had; should be obliged to have the information addressed to him at the bar of the Virginia Coffee House.<font face="symbol">ñ</font
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