1Plain Truth, 17 November 1747 (Franklin Papers)
Plain Truth: or, Serious Considerations On the Present State of the City of Philadelphia, and...
2Record of Service in the Assembly, 1751–64 (Franklin Papers)
Put on a Committee to prepare a Bill, same Day.On a Committee to prepare an Answer to Governors...
3Deed of Settlement of the Philadelphia Contributionship, 25 March 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...were submitted to the Company and signed. The scheme rested on too narrow a basis, however;
4The Albany Plan of Union, 1754 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office, London; also copies: Rhode Island Archives,......on a Plan of... ...on...
5Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, [28 May 1754] (Franklin Papers)
To report on their stewardship and demonstrate reasons for continued support by the... ...public...
6Poor Richard Improved, 1758 (Franklin Papers)
...year expanded to fill not only the usual second page of the pamphlet but also all the... ...on...
Public Record Office, London...the whole house, which resolved on April 30 that a sum not...
8From Benjamin Franklin to David Hall, 8 April 1759 (Franklin Papers)
...in September when I paid Caslon for it; but on Enquiry I find it was not shipt till November...on
9The Interest of Great Britain Considered, [17 April 1760] (Franklin Papers)
...the British conquests the ministry should insist on keeping, both to secure the safety of...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Norris; Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Accounts: Report, 9, 15, and 19 February 1763 (Franklin Papers)
On Feb. 9, 1763, Franklin drafted a letter to... ...was too personal in tone, so on February 15 he...
11Explanatory Remarks on the Assembly’s Resolves, [29 March 1764] (Franklin Papers)
On March 30, 1764, the day after the ...your worthy Father’s Remarks on our Assembly Resolves....
12Preface to Joseph Galloway’s Speech, [11 August 1764] (Franklin Papers)
...of the Province of Pennsylvania, May 24, 1764. On Occasion of a Petition drawn up by Order,...
13From Benjamin Franklin to the Freemen of Pennsylvania, 28 September 1764 (Franklin Papers)
Governor Penn had asked the Assembly for a militia bill on Feb. 4, 1764, and the House sent him...on
14Poor Richard Improved, 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...1, 1762, the issue for 1763 had already been on sale for a little over five weeks, ...on Sept....
15Scheme for Supplying the Colonies with a Paper Currency, [11–12 February? 1765] (Franklin Papers)
...an act of parliament levying stamp duties on the colonies, he wrote Richard Jackson,... ...on...on
16From Benjamin Franklin to the Georgia Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 10 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
..., which will be paid, and carried to the Credit of your Province, Please to accept my Thanks...
17From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
and incomplete copy: Public Record Office; letterbook draft: Library of Congress...second...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 5 January 1773 (Franklin Papers)
and copy: Public Record Office; letterbook draft: Library of Congress...to you on the 2d... ...on...
19Preface to the Declaration of the Boston Town Meeting, February 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...British policy, and culminated in the adoption on November 20 of three resolutions, which...
20From Benjamin Franklin to William Deane, 11 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Does he go on with his Printing Schemes, or has he got into......of Commons issued its report...
21An Open Letter to Lord Buckinghamshire, [4 March 1774] (Franklin Papers)
The Public Advertiser...Peers with a Subject of some Importance. The Public was amused, as the...
22From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin: Journal of Negotiations in London, 22 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
...himself that his recollection was fallible, and on some minor points it is contradicted by...
23Intended Vindication and Offer from Congress to Parliament, [before 21 July 1775] (Franklin Papers)
The Public AdvertiserPublic Advertiser
24The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 17[–22] January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
We joined each other at this place on the 22d. of December and on the 28th. had an Audience of...
25Memoir and Supplemental Observations, [before 18 June and before 3 July 1777?] (Franklin Papers)
...guessed at the purpose behind them or touched on the most surprising fact about them,......on...
26The American Commissioners’ Interview on January 8 with Gérard: Four Documents, 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...previous year. Vergennes had announced to them on December 12 that France was ready to... ...on...
27From Benjamin Franklin to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 26 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...to him as usual a Copy of my Credential Letter, on which a Day was named for my Reception. A...on
28Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, 1779 [7 December 1779] (Franklin Papers)
..., Vaughan learned that his author had landed on French soil and was setting out for....... On...
29Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont and Franklin: An Exchange About Accounts, [before 26 April 1782] (Franklin Papers)
Franklin received Robert Morris’ request for copies of the public accounts in September, 1781.
30From Benjamin Franklin to Ingenhousz, 2 October 1781[–21 June 1782] (Franklin Papers)
writing a good deal on various Subjects, which I could not find sufficient time... ...on the...