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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to [Peter Franklin], 7 May 1760 | 1760-05-07 | It is evident from the quantities of sea-shells, and the bones and teeth of fishes found in... |
| 2 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward and Jane Mecom, 30 … | 1752-11-30 | ...fear I have been too forward in cracking the shell, and producing the chick to the air before... |
| 3 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hopkinson, Francis | From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Hopkinson, 24 January … | 1768-01-24 | ...is explained. See also Richard I. Shelling, “Benjamin Franklin and the Dr. Bray... |
| 4 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 19 April 1757 | 1757-04-19 | ...closely connected with it as the Tortoise with his Shell, they die if you tear them out of it... |
| 5 | Franklin, Benjamin | Pringle, Sir John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Pringle, 6 January 1758 | 1758-01-06 | ...and too difficult to be come at; but the shell of the earth being broke, and the fragments... |
| 6 | Franklin, Benjamin | Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat … | From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquis de Condorcet, 20 … | 1774-03-20 | ...in Ploughing the Fields. That small Sea Shells are found intermix’d with the Substance... |
| 7 | Franklin, Benjamin | Eliot, Jared | From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 | 1747-07-16 | ...near the highest Parts of them, Strata of Sea Shells, in some Places the Marks of them are... |
| 8 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 27 June … | 1760-06-27 | (London, 1730). Richard I. Shelling, “Benjamin Franklin and the Dr. Bray Associates,” |
| 9 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 19 June 1731 | 1731-06-19 | ...incurable: yet we have here in town a kind of shell made of some wood, cut at a proper time,... |
| 10 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rhoads, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Rhoads, 10 February … | 1771-02-10 | ..., and paved, as it were, by the Sand, Shells, &c. might not readily take fire, the Tar... |