Books/2013.09-GlassArmonica/tex/BF1772_01_17.tex
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\section{From William Outram, January 17, 1772}
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DATE:& January 17, 1772\\
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FROM:& William Outram (Captain of the \textit{Liberty})\\
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TO:& (Ship's log?) \\
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PBF:& 19:38 \\
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\begin{Intro}
William Outram was a merchant captain, master of the Virginia vessel \Title{Liberty}.
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$\langle$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.$\rangle$