1From Benjamin Franklin to Smith, Wright and Gray, 13 July 1765 (Franklin Papers)
Inclos’d I send you three Bills of Exchange, White on Bacon, for Five Hundred Pounds Sterling.
2From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 4 February 1751 (Franklin Papers)
I wrote you per Capt. Budden, who sail’d the Beginning of December, and sent you a Bill of Exchange on Jonathan Gurnel & Co. for Fifty Pounds, and desired you to send me Viner’s, Bacon’s and Danvers’s Abridgments of the Law, with Wood’s and Coke’s Institutes.
3From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 1 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
I am glad to hear you continue so well, and that the Pain in your Side and Head have left you. Eat light Foods, such as Fowls, Mutton, &c. and but little Beef or Bacon, avoid strong Tea, and use what Exercise you can; by these Means, you will preserve your Health better, and be less Subject to Lowness of Spirits.
4From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 25 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
seem’d to make a pretty good Case of it, but there is no judging till the other side is heard, which will be next Thursday. Gilbert Francklin, whom you may remember as Partner to Anthony Bacon, is making Interest to be Governor in Case Wentworth is removed, and some of the Board of Trade are his Friends....with Anthony Bacon, a former Marylander who was a prominent London merchant, from...
5From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 4 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
It might have erected a Wall of Brass round England, if such a Measure had been adopted when fryar Bacon’s brazen Head cried out ...tale of the brazen head, a curious invention of Friar Roger Bacon that had the capacity to reveal the secret of defending England, to warn the British that they might wake up to find the time was past for achieving a union between the two countries that would...
6From Benjamin Franklin to the Royal Academy of Brussels, [after 19 May 1780] (Franklin Papers)
, which the English are so ready to fight & die for. —In short, this Invention, if compleated, would be, as Bacon expresses it, Francis Bacon,
7From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 6 December 1750 (Franklin Papers)
And that you would also send us by the first Ship, the following Books, viz. Coke’s Institutes, Wood’s Ditto of the Common Law, Bacon’s, Viner’s, and Danvers’s Abridgments. (7th edit., 2 vols., 1745); Matthew Bacon,
8From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 16 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
..., as a necessary Part of Knowledge for a public Man, and profitable if he should have occasion to practise it. I would have you therefore put into his Hands those Law-books you have viz. Blackstone, Coke, Bacon, Viner, &c. &c. He will inform you, that he received the Letter sent him by Mr Galloway, and the Paper
9From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 27 June 1760 (Franklin Papers)
The dried Venison was very acceptable, and I thank you for it. We have had it constantly shav’d to eat with our Bread and Butter for Breakfast, and this Week saw the last of it. The Bacon still holds out; for we are choice of it. Some Rashers of it, yesterday relish’d a Dish of Green Pease. Mrs. Stevenson thinks there was never any in England so good. The smok’d Beef was...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Peter P. Burdett, 21 August 1773 (Franklin Papers)
… (Philadelphia, 1830), pp. 208–14; Corra Bacon-Foster, “Early Chapters in the Development of the Potomac Route to the West …,” Columbia Hist. Soc.