John Penn to Library Company
The Proprietor’s Answer
Gentlemen,

I am obliged to You for the Regard You express for my Self and Family in this Address. I agree with You that the encouraging of Virtue and useful Knowledge will be of very great Service to this Province; and I shall always be ready with Pleasure to promote so good and necessary an Undertaking, as the erecting a Publick Library in this City.

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