1Journal of a Voyage, 1726 (Franklin Papers)
...kind, very surprising to see. It was a small shell-fish like a heart, the stalk by which it...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 19 June 1731 (Franklin Papers)
...incurable: yet we have here in town a kind of shell made of some wood, cut at a proper time,...
3Poor Richard, 1733 (Franklin Papers)
A Shell for him, a Shell for thee,
4Poor Richard, 1744 (Franklin Papers)
A Shell for him, a Shell for thee;
5From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...near the highest Parts of them, Strata of Sea Shells, in some Places the Marks of them are...
6Peter Kalm: Conversations with Franklin, 1750 (Franklin Papers)
...sides you see nothing but oyster and mussel shells in immense quantities. Yet the place is...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Kalm, 2 September 1750 (Franklin Papers)
...at the bottom all the several herbs, stones and shells they should find there; they came up in...
8Poor Richard Improved, 1751 (Franklin Papers)
...vegetable Substances; in the Water, that is in the Shells of Oysters, Cockles, and other Shell...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Edward and Jane Mecom, 30 November 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...fear I have been too forward in cracking the shell, and producing the chick to the air before...
10From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 8 December 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...dissolving urinary calculi included ashes, egg shells, meat, and various combinations of...