Vote of Thanks from Harvard College
Text in William C. Lane, “Harvard College and Franklin,” Publications of
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, X (1907), 238-9.
<Sept. 30, [1776]: The President and Fellows vote their thanks to
Franklin for the gift, transmitted by James Bowdoin, of Vattel’s
Droit des gens, and ask Bowdoin to present him with a copy of
their vote.>