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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Raudière, J.-D. Ramier de | American Commissioners | J.-D. Ramier de Raudière to the American Commissioners … | 1778-03-03 | ...as one of the immortals. Rome and all the world’s conquerors never matched the glory of the... |
2 | Lee, Arthur | Franklin, Benjamin | Arthur Lee to Franklin and John Adams: Two Letters, 7 … | 1779-02-07 | .... Bancroft woud have been the last person in the World you would have chosen to represent us,... |
3 | Hartley, David | Adams, John | Memorial from David Hartley to the American Peace … | 1783-05-21 | ...other. Poor unfortunate commerce! Universal commerce! The commerce of the world!” ( |
4 | Lee, Arthur | Franklin, Benjamin | Arthur Lee to Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, 7 … | 1779-02-07 | .... Bancroft woud have been the last person in the World you woud have chosen to represent us,... |
5 | Dumas, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric | American Commissioners | Dumas to the American Commissioners, 10 November 1778 … | 1778-11-10 | ...it would disgrace the nation before all the world and encourage its pro-British faction... |
6 | Ridley, Matthew | Franklin, Benjamin | Matthew Ridley to the Commissioners, 29 September 1778 | 1778-09-29 | ..., already are, become, the Wonder of the World, is the sincere Wish of Honourable... |
7 | Gilbank, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Gilbank to the Commissioners, 4 November 1778 | 1778-11-04 | ...for what he is possessed of in this part of the World. To whom then must I apply, hard as the... |
8 | Gilbank, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Gilbank to the Commissioners, 29 December 1778 | 1778-12-29 | ...wish to conceal matters of this sort from the World to prevent the Evils which will arise... |
9 | Hartley, David | American Peace Commissioners | David Hartley to the American Peace Commissioners, 14 … | 1783-06-14 | ...he wrote, “that no persuasion in the world would prevail without this point explicitly secured... |
10 | Smith, James | Franklin, Benjamin | James Smith to the Commissioners, November 1778 | ≈1778-11-01 | ...make you liable to in the opinion of the World, and that private resentment has no share... |
11 | Dumas, Charles William Frederic | Franklin, Benjamin | C. W. F. Dumas to Benjamin Franklin: A Translation, 30 … | 1778-10-30 | ...not run about offering her Amity to all the World, and hazarding their Refusal.” The... |
12 | Lee, William | American Commissioners | William Lee to the American Commissioners, 6 September … | 1777-09-06 | ...disomfiture has not been hinted by me here, the World may take it as they please. I believe... |
13 | Carmichael, William | American Commissioners | William Carmichael to the American Commissioners, 31 … | ≈1777-06-30 | ...has so much exposd us in the Eyes of the world. Our Country men that escape from Captivity in... |
14 | Committee for Foreign Affairs | American Commissioners | The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American … | ≈1777-10-06 | ...of our enemies in other parts of the world. For this purpose, the marine committee... |
15 | Kéralio, Agathon Guynement, chevalier de | American Commissioners | Intelligence from Bilbao and Other Places, 3 July 1779 | 1779-07-03 | ...Spanish ships are in the best condition in the world. It is rumored in Paris that d’... |
16 | Committee for Foreign Affairs | American Commissioners | The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American … | 1777-05-30 | as any in the world, having neither Debt nor Taxes on her Back when... |
17 | Committee of Secret Correspondence | American Commissioners | The Committee of Secret Correspondence to the American … | ≈1776-12-21 | ...taken to unmask his Lordship, and evince to the World, that he did not possess Powers, which... |
18 | Carmichael, William | American Commissioners | William Carmichael to the American Commissioners, 10 … | 1777-07-10 | ...the Number of Adventures to our part of the World. Mr. Hodge is obligd to apply to... |
19 | Continental Congress | Franklin, Benjamin | The Continental Congress to Franklin, William Bollan … | 1774-10-26 | ..., ostensibly to the throne and actually to the world, of what the quarrel was about.... |
20 | American Commissioners | Committee of Secret Correspondence | The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret … | 1777-02-06 | ...under a Military government. But the Governor of the World sets Bounds to the Rage of Men,... |
21 | American Commissioners | Committee of Secret Correspondence | The American Commissioners to the Committee of Secret … | ≈1777-03-12 | ...is so generally established in the rest of the World that the Prospect of an Asylum in... |
22 | American Commissioners | Committee of Secret Correspondence | The American Commissioners to [the Committee of Secret … | 1777-04-28 | ...income, to be paid him anywhere in the world and whether or not the negotiations succeeded... |
23 | Lee, Arthur | Franklin, Benjamin | Arthur Lee to Franklin and Silas Deane, 26 February … | 1777-02-26 | ...Meridian” in the old sense of region or part of the world; “ |
24 | Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from the Managers of the … | 1771-11-08 | ...Silk we have received from other Parts of the World we apprehend some of it is not much... |
25 | Dunlap, William | Franklin, Benjamin | William Dunlap to Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft … | ≈1764-10-01 | ...last. This is all the visible Estate I have in the World, and is full £300 more than I think I... |
26 | Labillière, Peter | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Labilliere, 8 December … | 1781-12-08 | ...Opportunity to acknowledge and proclaim to the World the late very complete &......the World,... |
27 | Davies, Mary Ann | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Ann Davies, 26 April … | 1783-04-26 | ...rejoice me. ’Tis true I am almost dead to the World, as is the World to me; & am of course... |
28 | Ingenhousz, Jan | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 1 September 1783 | 1783-09-01 | ...finishing stroke to the greatest revolution which the world ever beheld, and after having had... |
29 | Committee of the Town of Boston | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of the Town of … | 1770-07-13 | ...are to be kept a profound Secret, and the World is to See only such parts or parcells...the World |
30 | Ingenhousz, Jan | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz, 3 May 1780 | 1780-05-03 | ...so entirely involved in the troublesome business of the world Politic, as to have abandon’... |