Received letter from Mr. Abram Beal of the New York Prison Association asking to be informed whether a convention for prison reform will be held in Philadelphia.
Samuell Harris writes to Benjamin Franklin as a prisoner of Mill Prison in Plymouth. Harris describes the difficult situation in the prison and requests money from Franklin to relieve some of the circumstances.; American Philosophical Society
Cheerfully consents to publication of his essay on prisons written at the request of the American Association for the Improvement of Penal and Reformatory Institutions.
Michael Hillegas writes on behalf of a poor widow to request that Benjamin Franklin help get her son, John Claypoole, released. He describes that Claypoole was taken prisoner on the ship Luzerne and is now in Mill Prison. He also asks for Franklin how much a set of encyclopedias costs in France for a friend.; American Philosophical Society
