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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Lighthouse Tragedy, 1718 | ≈1718-01-01 | Not found As a lad of twelve or thirteen Franklin “took a Fancy to Poetry, and made some little... | |
| 2 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Taking of Teach the Pirate, 1719 | ≈1719-01-01 | Not found The second ballad which Franklin wrote and hawked through the streets of Boston was “a... | |
| 3 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Elegy on My Sister Franklin, 1722] | ≈1722-01-01 | Copy: University of Pennsylvania Library The University of Pennsylvania acquired in 1934 an... | |
| 4 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722 | 1722-04-02 | Printed in The New-England Courant , April 2, 1722. The first issue of James Franklin’s... | |
| 5 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 2, 16 April 1722 | 1722-04-16 | Printed in The New-England Courant , April 16, 1722. Histories of Lives are seldom entertaining,... | |
| 6 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 3, 30 April 1722 | 1722-04-30 | Printed in The New-England Courant , April 30, 1722. It is undoubtedly the Duty of all Persons to... | |
| 7 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 4, 14 May 1722 | 1722-05-14 | Printed in The New-England Courant , May 14, 1722. An sum etiam nunc vel Graecè loqui vel Latinè... | |
| 8 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 5, 28 May 1722 | 1722-05-28 | Printed in The New-England Courant , May 28, 1722. Mulier Mulieri magis congruet. Ter. I shall... | |
| 9 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 6, 11 June 1722 | 1722-06-11 | Printed in The New-England Courant , June 11, 1722. Quem Dies videt veniens Superbum, Hunc Dies... | |
| 10 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 7, 25 June 1722 | 1722-06-25 | Printed in The New-England Courant , June 25, 1722. It has been the Complaint of many Ingenious... | |
| 11 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 8, 9 July 1722 | 1722-07-09 | Printed in The New-England Courant , July 9, 1722. On June 11 the Courant had insinuated that the... | |
| 12 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 9, 23 July 1722 | 1722-07-23 | Printed in The New-England Courant , July 23, 1722. Corruptio optimi est pessima. It has been for... | |
| 13 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 10, 13 August 1722 | 1722-08-13 | Printed in The New-England Courant , August 13, 1722. Optimè societas hominum servabitur. Cic.... | |
| 14 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 11, 20 August 1722 | 1722-08-20 | Printed in The New-England Courant , August 20, 1722. Neque licitum interea est meam amicam... | |
| 15 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 12, 10 September 1722 | 1722-09-10 | Printed in The New-England Courant , September 10, 1722. Quod est in cordi sobrii, est in ore... | |
| 16 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 13, 24 September 1722 | 1722-09-24 | Printed in The New-England Courant , September 24, 1722. In Persons of a contemplative... | |
| 17 | Franklin, Benjamin | Silence Dogood, No. 14, 8 October 1722 | 1722-10-08 | Printed in The New-England Courant , October 8, 1722. Earum causarum quantum quaeque valeat,... | |
| 18 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Other Courant Essays Possibly by Franklin, 1723] | ≈1723-01-01 | Franklin’s contributions to the New-England Courant were not limited to the fourteen letters of... | |
| 19 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Printer to the Reader, 11 February 1723 | 1723-02-11 | Printed in The New-England Courant , February 11, 1723. Arrest and imprisonment had not... | |
| 20 | Franklin, Benjamin | On Titles of Honor, 18 February 1723 | 1723-02-18 | Printed in The New-England Courant , February 18, 1723. Mero meridie si dixerit illi tenebras... | |
| 21 | Franklin, Benjamin | Promissory Note to John Phillips, 5 [?] May 1724 | 1724-05-05 | DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I Promise to Pay or Cause to be paid unto John Phillips... | |
| 22 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, 1725 | ≈1725-01-01 | A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. London: Printed in the Year MDCCXXV .... | |
| 23 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sloane, Sir Hans | From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Hans Sloane, 2 June 1725 | 1725-06-02 | ALS : British Museum Having lately been in the Nothern Parts of America, I have brought from... |
| 24 | Franklin, Benjamin | Plan of Conduct, 1726 | ≈1726-01-01 | MS not found; reprinted from Robert Walsh, “Life of Benjamin Franklin,” Delaplaine’s Repository... | |
| 25 | Franklin, Benjamin | Journal of a Voyage, 1726 | ≈1726-07-22 | MS not found; reprinted from WTF, Memoirs , 4to edit., I , Appendix, i-xix; also transcript:... | |
| 26 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Franklin, 6 January 1727 | 1727-01-06 | MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 3. I am highly pleased with the account captain... |
| 27 | Franklin, Benjamin | Epitaph, 1728 | ≈1728-01-01 | Autograph MS : Yale University Library; another autograph MS : Richard Gimbel, New Haven, Conn.... | |
| 28 | Franklin, Benjamin | Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion, 20 November … | 1728-11-20 | Autograph MS : Library of Congress; also transcript: Library of Congress Franklin mentioned this... | |
| 29 | Franklin, Benjamin | Martha Careful and Caelia Shortface, 28 January 1729 | 1729-01-28 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , January 28, 1728/9. When Samuel Keimer forestalled... | |
| 30 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 1, 4 February 1729 | 1729-02-04 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 4, 1728/9. Franklin and Hugh Meredith decided... | |
| 31 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 2, 11 February 1729 | 1729-02-11 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 11, 1728/9. All Fools have still an Itching to... | |
| 32 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 3, 18 February 1729 | 1729-02-18 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 18, 1728/9. Non vultus instantis Tyranni Mente... | |
| 33 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 4, 25 February 1729 | 1729-02-25 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 25, 1728/9. Nequid nimis. In my first Paper I... | |
| 34 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 5, 4 March 1729 | 1729-03-04 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , March 4, 1728/9. Vos, O Patricius sanguis, quos vivere... | |
| 35 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 | 1729-03-27 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , March 27, 1729. ——Quid non mortalia Pectora cogis Auri... | |
| 36 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency, 3 April … | 1729-04-03 | A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency. Philadelphia: Printed and... | |
| 37 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1729 | ≈1729-10-02 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 2 to December 30, 1729. The Pennsylvania Gazette... | |
| 38 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Printer to the Reader, 2 October 1729 | 1729-10-02 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 2, 1729. The attacks of the Busy-Body, Keimer’s... | |
| 39 | Franklin, Benjamin | Governor Burnet and the Massachusetts Assembly, 9 … | 1729-10-09 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 9, 1729. His Excellency Governor Burnet died... | |
| 40 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Printer to the Reader, 23 October 1729 | 1729-10-23 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 23, 1729. The Publishers of this Paper meeting with... | |
| 41 | Franklin, Benjamin | Affairs of Ireland, 20 November 1729 | 1729-11-20 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , November 20, 1729. Affairs of Ireland The English Papers... | |
| 42 | Franklin, Benjamin | From the Casuist: The Case of the Trespassing Horse, 16 … | 1729-12-16 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 16, 1729. I send you here an Answer to a Query in... | |
| 43 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1730 | ≈1730-01-06 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 6 to December 29, 1730. About the End of next... | |
| 44 | Franklin, Benjamin | Printer’s Errors, 13 March 1730 | 1730-03-13 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , March 13, 1729/30. Printerum est errare. As your last Paper... | |
| 45 | Franklin, Benjamin | Davenport, Sarah | From Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Davenport, [June 1730?] | ≈1730-06-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Your kind and affectionate Letter of May the 15th, was... |
| 46 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Two Dialogues between Philocles and Horatio … | ≈1730-06-23 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , June 23 and July 9, 1730. Duane included these two... | |
| 47 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ledger A & B, 4 July 1730 | 1730-07-04 | MS Account Book: American Philosophical Society The earliest of Franklin’s surviving business... | |
| 48 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Public Men, 10 September 1730] | 1730-09-10 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , September 10, 1730. Although the paragraph in the Gazette... | |
| 49 | Franklin, Benjamin | On Governor Belcher’s Speech, 24 September 1730 | 1730-09-24 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , September 24, 1730. In our last we gave our Readers the... | |
| 50 | Franklin, Benjamin | On Conversation, 15 October 1730 | 1730-10-15 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 15, 1730. The opinions expressed in this essay are... |