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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1451 | Franklin, Benjamin | Partridge, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Partridge, 2 March 1785 | 1785-03-02 | AL : Reprinted from Christie’s, Fine printed books and manuscripts including Americana (December... |
| 1452 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de | From Benjamin Franklin to Sartine, 4 October 1780 | 1780-10-04 | Copy: Library of Congress Your Excellency will perceive by the inclosed Passports the Grounds on... |
| 1453 | Franklin, Benjamin | Barclay, David Junior | From Benjamin Franklin to David Barclay, 8 January 1783 | 1783-01-08 | Reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin …... |
| 1454 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 24 February … | 1763-02-24 | ALS : American Philosophical Society We din’d at Bristol, and got here last Night in good time;... |
| 1455 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 5 June 1781 | 1781-06-05 | LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; AL (draft): Library of Congress I have received the honour... |
| 1456 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 27 November … | 1753-11-27 | ALS and duplicate: Yale University Library I inclose you a Bill of Philip Gibbes jr. drawn on... |
| 1457 | Franklin, Benjamin | Kirke, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Kirke, 3 June 1758 | 1758-06-03 | LS : The James Monroe Memorial Foundation Yours of the 1st. of April I received, with a Bill... |
| 1458 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 15 October 1782 | 1782-10-15 | A long and painful Illness has prevented my corresponding with your Excellency regularly, but I... |
| 1459 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 15 October 1781 | 1781-10-15 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères I have just received a Letter from Corunna of... |
| 1460 | Franklin, Benjamin | Melmoth, Courtney | From Benjamin Franklin to Courtney Melmoth, [on or … | ≈1778-01-28 | AL (draft): Library of Congress I should have been flatter’d exceedingly by Mrs. Melmoth’s... |
| 1461 | Franklin, Benjamin | J.F. Frin & Co. | From Benjamin Franklin to J.F. Frin & Co., 28 December … | 1779-12-28 | Copy: Library of Congress I return your 49 Bills accepted, as of the Day on which they were... |
| 1462 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jones, John Paul | From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 8 March 1780 | 1780-03-08 | LS and transcript: National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 3d... |
| 1463 | Franklin, Benjamin | Washington, George | From Benjamin Franklin to George Washington, 6 May 1781 | 1781-05-06 | L , AL (draft), and copy: Library of Congress The Bearer Mr. Grieve, goes to Virginia, with an... |
| 1464 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 11 March 1782 | 1782-03-11 | Copy: Library of Congress I have just received a Number of Packets from America. In opening them... |
| 1465 | Boy, Pierre-François de | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre-François de Boy with … | ≈1781-05-07 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I Sent to you the Copy of the Certificate, and too that of... |
| 1466 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Joshua | From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Johnson, 22 February … | 1780-02-22 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress Enclos’d I send you a Copy... |
| 1467 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 3 September … | 1778-09-03 | Transcript: Library of Congress I received duly your Favours of July 14. and August 14. I hoped... |
| 1468 | Franklin, Benjamin | Peters, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Peters, 25[–27] … | ≈1779-10-25 | Copy: Library of Congress With great Difficulty and after much Enquiry my Correspondent in... |
| 1469 | Franklin, Benjamin | Woodward, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Woodward, 10 April … | 1773-04-10 | ALS (draft ): American Philosophical Society Desirous of being reviv’d in your Memory, I take... |
| 1470 | Franklin, Benjamin | Foxcroft, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Foxcroft, 2 December … | 1772-12-02 | ALS (letterbook copy): Library of Congress I received yours of Oct. 23. with Invoice and Bill of... |
| 1471 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vassall, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Vassall, 19 June 1746 | 1746-06-19 | ALS : Harvard College Library I received your Favour of the 9th Inst. with the New System of... |
| 1472 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lotbinière, Michel-Alain Chartier de | From Benjamin Franklin to Lotbinière, 8 March 1778 | 1778-03-08 | AL : Pierpont Morgan Library Mr. Franklin presents his Compliments to M. Lotbiniere, has receiv’d... |
| 1473 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 1 March … | 1769-03-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received yours of Jan. 3. per Packet, and one from Sally.... |
| 1474 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de | From Benjamin Franklin to Sartine, 26 September 1780 | 1780-09-26 | Copy: Library of Congress As soon as I received the Letter your Excellency did me the honour of... |
| 1475 | Franklin, Benjamin | Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques | From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 22 … | 1773-01-22 | Translated extract: printed in Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, ed., Œuvres de M. Franklin … (2 vols.,... |
| 1476 | Franklin, Benjamin | Larwood, Van Hasselt & Van Suchtelen | From Benjamin Franklin to Larwood, Van Hasselt & Van … | 1782-02-22 | Copy: Library of Congress I duly received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the... |
| 1477 | Franklin, Benjamin | Houdetot, Elisabeth-Françoise-Sophie de La Live de … | From Benjamin Franklin to the Comtesse d’Houdetot, 9 … | 1784-06-09 | LS : Vicomte Foy, Paris (1957) J’ai reçu, ma chere Amie, votre Lettre infiniment obligeante, et... |
| 1478 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, William Temple | From Benjamin Franklin to William Temple Franklin, 29 … | 1784-08-29 | ALS : Seth Kaller, Inc., White Plains, New York (2006) I received last Night your Letter from... |
| 1479 | Franklin, Benjamin | Gourlade & Moylan | From Benjamin Franklin to Gourlade & Moylan, 5 July … | 1780-07-05 | Copy: Library of Congress I wrote to M Williams on the 27th. Ult. inclosing an oder to the... |
| 1480 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 31 August 1779 | 1779-08-31 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress I have just... |
| 1481 | Franklin, Benjamin | Howe, Rear Adm. Richard, Viscount | From Benjamin Franklin to [Lord Howe], 20 August 1776 | 1776-08-20 | AL (draft) : American Philosophical Society The Temper of the Colonies as professed in their... |
| 1482 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert Hunter | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, [18 … | 1755-05-18 | MS not found; reprinted from Pennsylvania Archives , series I , II , 297. On May 10 General... |
| 1483 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, [late 1771?] | ≈1771-01-01 | AL (incomplete?): American Philosophical Society Voltaire in his Questions sur l’Encyclopedie ,... |
| 1484 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hodgson, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Hodgson, 31 October … | 1781-10-31 | AL (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Library of Congress, William L. Clements Library,... |
| 1485 | Franklin, Benjamin | Norris, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Norris and Thomas … | 1762-01-09 | ALS and copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania When your Drafts upon me first came to hand, the... |
| 1486 | Franklin, Benjamin | Cushing, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 24 August … | 1773-08-24 | ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I received duly your several Favours of June 25, 26,... |
| 1487 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dunlap, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Dunlap, 4 April 1757 | 1757-04-04 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I now appoint you Postmaster of Philadelphia, during our... |
| 1488 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 21 July … | 1754-07-21 | ALS : New-York Historical Society I wrote a Line to you from your Landing, promising to send you... |
| 1489 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jay, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 29 April 1784 | 1784-04-29 | AL : Columbia University Library Mr Franklin presents his respectful Compliments to Mr Jay, and... |
| 1490 | Franklin, Benjamin | Kinnersley, Ebenezer | From Benjamin Franklin to Ebenezer Kinnersley, 2 March … | 1752-03-02 | Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Supplemental Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Part II .... |
| 1491 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jefferson, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July … | 1782-07-15 | LS : Yale University Library I was in great Hopes when I saw your Name in the Commission for... |
| 1492 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 25 October … | 1750-10-25 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society Enclos’d with this I send you all my Electrical Papers... |
| 1493 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 30 January … | 1756-01-30 | MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 10. Every other day, since we have been here, it... |
| 1494 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 22 January … | 1770-01-22 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Favour of Saturday early this Morning, and... |
| 1495 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 7 August … | 1761-08-07 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you June 13. July 11. July 22. and July 24. I... |
| 1496 | Franklin, Benjamin | Barclay, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Barclay, 12 February … | 1782-02-12 | Copy: Library of Congress I received duly yours of the 3d. Inst. and I am enrag’d to find that... |
| 1497 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jackson, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 18 June 1764 | 1764-06-18 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received yours of the 13th. April, which I shall answer... |
| 1498 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morel, —— | From Benjamin Franklin to Morel, [after 10 June 1779] | ≈1779-06-10 | Copy: Library of Congress It was two Guineas that I gave the Person who brought me your Charts,... |
| 1499 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bariatinskii, Ivan Sergeevich | From Benjamin Franklin to Bariatinskii, [c. 22 December … | 1783-12-22 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society I have never before heard of the Resolution of... |
| 1500 | Franklin, Benjamin | Galloway, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, [14 March … | 1767-03-14 | MS not found; reprinted from The Pennsylvania Chronicle, And Universal Advertiser , May 18–May... |