1Franklin’s Conjecture on the Foregoing, [after 12 August 1772] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: the Royal Society The Aurora Boreales , tho’ visible almost every Night of clear Weather in...
2Power of Attorney to Deborah Franklin and Richard Bache, 17 February 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
DS : American Philosophical Society <February 17, 1772. Franklin empowers Deborah Franklin and...
3From Benjamin Franklin to John Huske, 6 September 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I have deferred Writing to you agreable to...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Priestley, 4 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society I think with you that there cannot be the least...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and incomplete copy: Public Record Office; letterbook draft: Library of Congress The...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 5 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter of March 2. and am glad to hear...
7From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I have received yours of Oct. 4. 8. and 13. I cannot...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 13 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received yours of Sept. [ blank ] and Nov. 4. It gave me...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, 12 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum I am concern’d to understand lately that you have...
10From Benjamin Franklin to William Hunter, 30 October 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Royal College of Surgeons The partnership between Dr. William Hunter and Polly Hewson’s...
11Reply to a Defender of Lord Hillsborough, [after 7 September 1772] (Franklin Papers)
AD (incomplete draft): American Philosophical Society In your Paper of the 7th Instant, one M.S....
12From Benjamin Franklin to John Foxcroft, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I am sorry to acquaint you that the Account Mr....
13From Benjamin Franklin to John Hawkesworth, 8 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library Dining abroad yesterday, and not coming home till 12 at Night, I...
14From Benjamin Franklin to Abel James, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress; copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania I duly...
15Experiments Supporting the Use of Pointed Lightning Rods, [18?] August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces … by Benj....
16From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, [early November 1772] (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft; incomplete): American Philosophical Society [ First part missing ] in this Foggy...
17From Benjamin Franklin to Lancelot Cowper, 13 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I was favoured by your Forwarding a Letter to me the 7th of last...
18From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 3–4 November 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I wrote to you per the October Packet, and have not...
19The Sommersett Case and the Slave Trade, 18–20 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The London Chronicle , June 18–20, 1772 It is said that some generous humane persons...
20From Benjamin Franklin to Sir John Pringle, [before 10 May 1772] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Dr. F. presents his respectful Compliments to Sir J....
21From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Dartmouth, 8 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Dartmouth College Library Dr. Franklin presents his best Respects to Lord Dartmouth,...
22From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price, 28 September 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Inclos’d I send you Dr. Priestly’s last Letter, of which a...
23From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 19–22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin...
24From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I have not had time to look over the...
25From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 3 November 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress Inclos’d I return to you Mackie’s Bill on Molleson...
26From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Sr., 3 November 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress My Sister, to whom I have not now time to write,...
27From Benjamin Franklin to a French Friend, [June 1772]: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: printed in Pierre-Joseph-André Roubaud, Histoire générale de l’Asie, de l’Afrique et de...
28From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 26 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society Last Night I received your Favour of the 19th per...
29From Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Franklin Bache, 29 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I received your agreable Letters of Oct....
30From Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Benezet, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft) and copy: American Philosophical Society; copy: Haverford College Library...
31From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 19 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (incomplete): American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letters of Jany 5. and Feby....
32From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 4 November 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress; AL (copy): Public Record Office Lord Dartmouth our...
33From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 14 July 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am just return’d from a Journey of near a Month, which has...
34From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 28 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I have written several short Letters to...
35Memorandum about Lord Hillsborough, [January 1772?] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): Library of Congress When the Petition first came over, an Accident had happen’d to...
36From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I suppose Mr. Barclay has acquainted you...
37From Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, 20 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I received your obliging Letter of Nov. 27. It was forwarded to me...
38From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 2 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (letterbook draft; incomplete): American Philosophical Society I was in Ireland when your...
39From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, 8 July 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I arrived here yesterday in my Return from the North. This...
40From Benjamin Franklin to Sir William Browne, [1772] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): American Philosophical Society This blast shows Franklin at his most abusive and...
41From Benjamin Franklin to John Bartram, [7?] October 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Haverford College Library; letterbook draft: American Philosophical Society I received...
42From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I hope you received the Elastic Truss, and...
43From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Rhoads, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library; letterbook draft: American Philosophical Society I think I before...
44From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 30 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have this Day receiv’d your kind Letter by Mrs. Wright....
45From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, [12–16 November 1772]: extract (Franklin Papers)
Translated extract: printed in Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, ed., Œuvres de M. Franklin … (2 vols.,...
46From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Wheeler, 3 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library In November, 1771, just a year after the first sample of...
47From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 3 February 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society This will be delivered to you by the Revd....
48From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 7 October 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress <London, October 7, 1772. Has acknowledged in...
49From Benjamin Franklin to Rebecca Haydock, 5 February 1772: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from The Aurora , August 24, 1802 I received my industrious young friend’s...
50From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; letterbook draft: Library of Congress I wrote to you by...