1From 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.
2From 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,