1From Benjamin Franklin to Giambatista Beccaria, 13 July 1762 (Franklin Papers)
Experiments and Observations on ElectricityIn 1753 Beccaria had published
2Comments on Hoadly and Wilson’s Electrical Pamphlet, 28 January 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Supplemental Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Part II.” Actually, as early as September 1753
3From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas-François Dalibard, 29 June 1755 (Franklin Papers)
and has been frequently reprinted since. The personal parts — the first three and the last paragraphs and one in the middle — survive only in Dalibard’s translation of Franklin’s Experiments and Observations. The editors have decided to follow the Royal Society manuscript copy and to add their own retranslation of the several French paragraphs....some new experiments and observations...
4From Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, 18 March 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, 1753–54, 284–5). His kite experiments show a mastery of electricity. See (1753), 431; , Sept. 13, 1753;
5From Benjamin Franklin to James Birkett, 1 March 1755 (Franklin Papers)
’s nephew Benjamin Mecom in the census of inhabitants taken by order of Governor George Thomas, 1753. Vere L. Oliver, New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Part III
6New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Part III [September 1754] (Franklin Papers)
New Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. By Benjamin Franklin, Esq; Communicated to P. Collinson, Esq; of London, F.R.S. And read at the Royal Society June 27, and July 4, 1754. To... ...F.R.S. and read at the Royal Society Dec. 6, 1753; and another in defence of Mr Franklin against the Abbe Nollet, by Mr D. Colden, of New York. Part III. London: Printed...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 28 May 1754 (Franklin Papers)
By Capt. Cuzzins I sent you a paper containing my new Experiments and Observations on Lightning, and on the positive and negative Electricity of the Clouds:, 1753–54, p. 40. The House adjourned without passing the law.
8From Benjamin Franklin to William Watson, 19 April 1754 (Franklin Papers)
Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751–52), 202–11, published 1753. It is reprinted above,
9Franklin and Hall: Account with Benjamin Franklin, 1750–54 (Franklin Papers)
brought forward from the three earlier pages now lost. The second surviving page, numbered 7, runs from May 5, 1753, to Feb. 20, 1754, when the charges reached £219 15Experiments and Observations on Electricity
10From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 1 January 1754 (Franklin Papers)
I think the Experiments and Observations put down “1753” from force of habit. The correct date is established by the references to Nollet’s , published early in 1753, to David Colden’s “Remarks” of December 1753, and to , published in March 1753. , 358–9, and Sparks, Bigelow, and Smyth all retain the 1753 date uncorrected.