51To Benjamin Franklin from John Alleyne, 11 February 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Having often experiencd the Effects of your Benevolence...
52To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Ronayne, 15 February 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : the Royal Society In conformity to the desire of some Friends, I have drawn up the...
53Power 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...
54From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 18 February 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Franklin Library, Franklin, Massachusetts You will receive this Line, I hope soon by our...
55To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Rogers, [20 February 1772] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Major Rogers presents his most respectful Compliments to...
56To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 28 February 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society In your Letter of the 20th. of April last you sent me...
57To Benjamin Franklin from John Foxcroft, 2 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I am favour’d with yours of Decr. 3d by the Packet which...
58To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 5 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je demande Monsieur à tous les Anglois que Je vois de vos...
59To Benjamin Franklin from John Huske, 10 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The enclosed Letter will fully disclose to you the Plan and...
60To Benjamin Franklin from William Neate, 11 March 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania <St. Mary Hill, March 11, 1772, a note in the third...
61From 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...
62To Benjamin Franklin from John Alleyne, M[arch?] 17, 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I am oblig’d to enquire in what Manner the People of...
63To Benjamin Franklin from William Canton, 18 March 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania <Wednesday evening, March 18, [1772 ], a note in the...
64To Benjamin Franklin from Noble Wimberly Jones, 18 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Emboldened by the universal good Character of the bearer of...
65From 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....
66From Benjamin Franklin to David Hall, 20 March 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : text, Yale University Library; cover with address, Haverford College Library. I received...
67From 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...
68To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Ronayne, [27 March? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Ronayne, at the request of Mr. Henly, informs Doctor...
69From 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....
70To Benjamin Franklin from Michael Collinson, [March? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Collinson’s very respectful Comp[limen]ts to Dr. Franklin...
71From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 2 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (letterbook draft; incomplete): American Philosophical Society I was in Ireland when your...
72From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., [on or before 2 April 1772]: fragment (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft; fragment): American Philosophical Society [ Beginning lost : sub]scribers...
73From 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...
74From Benjamin Franklin to ——, 3 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society Yesterday we tapp’d the Porter, and found it...
75From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin and Elizabeth West, [before 4 April 1772?]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : Yale University Library <Before April 4, [1772? ], and in the third person. An invitation to...
76To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 10 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am highly obliged by your Favours of the 13th and 14th...
77From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 13 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., The Works of Benjamin Franklin … (10 vols., Boston, 1836–40),...
78From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 13 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter by Mrs. Wright, and shall do her...
79To Benjamin Franklin from John Michell, 13 April 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Tom’s C. H. April 13, 1772: Returns a book together with...
80To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Small, 13 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (incomplete): American Philosophical Society Having soon dispatched all I could do in Jamaica,...
81From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 20 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft ): American Philosophical Society I received your Favour of March 5 per M. Dazoux, and...
82William Temple Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 25 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am sorry I could not have the pleasure of writing to you...
83To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Benezet, 27 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The writer of this letter has hitherto appeared only...
84To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 27 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; minutebook copy: Library Company of Philadelphia By order of...
85To Benjamin Franklin from William Henly, [April? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have this day repeated in the most accurate manner I was...
86To Benjamin Franklin from Dorothea Blunt, 1 May [1772?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Three of Dolly Blunt’s letters, of which this is the first,...
87Note on the Walpole Company’s Rejoinder to a Report from the Board of Trade, [after 1 May 1772] (Franklin Papers)
[After May 1, 1772 ] After the flurry of activity over the Walpole grant in the spring of 1771,...
88From 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...
89To Benjamin Franklin from William Henly, [after 4 May 1772] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This letter poses a problem of dating that we are unable to...
90From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 5 May 1772: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: Reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., The Works of Benjamin Franklin … (10 vols., Boston,...
91From Benjamin Franklin to John Foxcroft, [on or before 5 May 1772]: fragment (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft; fragment): American Philosophical Society My Love to dear Mrs. Foxcroft,...
92From 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...
93From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 5 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
AL (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society [I have rec]eived yours of Mar. 2, with the...
94From 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...
95From Benjamin Franklin to the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature, [before 10 May 1772]: extracts (Franklin Papers)
Extracts printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July 29, 1772; ALS (incomplete draft): American...
96From 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....
97Accounting of Benjamin Franklin’s Share in the Walpole Company, 12 May 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society <May 12, 1772: “Benjamin Franklin Esq., for his Proportion of...
98To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, [14?–]16 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society but be fore I can say aney thing I muste Stop to tell who I...
99To Benjamin Franklin from John Hawkesworth, [15 May? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Many, many Thanks, my dear Friend, for your obliging...
100To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 16 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society A few Days since per Captain Sparks I did myself the...