1To Benjamin Franklin from Edward Nairne, 14 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr Sikes of Paris has been so obliging as to undertake the care of delivering a Book to you. It is directions for using my Patent Electrical Machine which I hope before this you have received safe. There are some experiments in the Philosophical part, which I hope will give you pleasure, as they tend to confirm your Theory of Electricity. If it were...