Family photograph — framed B. Franklin letter dated 14 February 1773

October 14, 2026 — recipient identification, Archive AI: At Joe Stuart’s request, associated this letter photograph with Rebecca Haydock Garrigues. The photographed date, silk shipment, account/payment discussion and Miss Haydock address match the February 14, 1773 letter published by Founders Online, National Archives: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0042 . Her May 20 reply is https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0121 . This identifies the correspondence and recipient; it does not authenticate the photographed autograph or prove the family custody chain. This update supersedes the earlier note that no recipient profile exists.

Family-supplied image preserved unchanged. OCR is a search aid and may contain errors; verify against the image. Scan number is upload order, not printed page number.

9 October 2026 — unmapped evidence review, Archive AI: Original image inspected through the connected Drive archive. Photograph of a framed letter headed London, February 14, 1773 and signed B. Franklin, discussing silk, an account and payment. Family provenance narrative is in 900.80.001; published correspondence context is in 900.60.011. A photograph cannot by itself authenticate the autograph or establish an unbroken chain of ownership. Recipient identity should be correlated with the published transcription; no matching recipient profile currently exists. Family compilation claims remain attributed; no new biological relationships are asserted by these evidence links.