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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Franklin, Benjamin | Eliot, Jared | From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 25 October 1750 | 1750-10-25 | ALS : Yale University Library I ought to have inform’d you sooner that we got well home, and... |
| 502 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 25 October … | 1750-10-25 | MS not found; reprinted from Adrian H. Joline, Meditations of an Autograph Collector (London and... |
| 503 | Johnson, Samuel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Johnson, [November … | ≈1750-11-01 | MS not found; reprinted from Smyth, Writings , III , 29–30. As I could not make a tour to... |
| 504 | Franklin, Benjamin | Advertisement, 1 November 1750 | 1750-11-01 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , November 1, 1750. Whereas on Saturday night last, the house... | |
| 505 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion, 15 … | 1750-11-15 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , November 15, 1750. Rules , by the Observation of which, a... | |
| 506 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 22 November … | 1750-11-22 | ALS : New York Public Library (Berg) You are very obliging in your Compliments on my Sketch of... |
| 507 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin and Hall: Account with Benjamin Franklin … | ≈1750-11-27 | MS Account: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Two sheets have been found of Franklin and Hall’s... | |
| 508 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 6 December … | 1750-12-06 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I receiv’d your Favour of Augt. 31. per Mesnard, and Copy... |
| 509 | Johnson, Samuel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Johnson, [14 December … | 1750-12-14 | MS notes for a letter: New York Public Library (Berg) Perhaps as the [business?] of the 2d. Class... |
| 510 | Thomson, Adam | Hall, David | Adam Thomson to David Hall, with Franklin’s … | 1750-12-17 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 18, 1750. Dr. Adam Thomson, a Scots physician in... |
| 511 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to [John Franklin?], 25 December … | 1750-12-25 | Copy: American Academy of Arts and Sciences I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that... |
| 512 | Adams, John | [Harvard College, 1751–1755] | ≈1751-01-01 | Continued November 30. 1804. In my own class at Collidge, there were several others, for whom I... | |
| 513 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1751 | ≈1751-01-01 | Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris … for the Year of our Lord 1751 . … By... | |
| 514 | Franklin, Benjamin | Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, 1751 | ≈1751-01-01 | Printed in [William Clarke], Observations On the late and present Conduct of the French, with... | |
| 515 | Franklin, Benjamin | Physical and Meteorological Observations, Conjectures … | ≈1751-01-01 | AD (incomplete): American Philosophical Society; draft: Library of Congress; printed in Royal... | |
| 516 | Franklin, Benjamin | Idea of the English School, [7 January 1751] | 1751-01-07 | Printed in A Sermon on Education. Wherein Some Account is given of the Academy, Established in... | |
| 517 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 9 January … | 1751-01-09 | ALS : Yale University Library I receiv’d your Favour of the 14th past, with the Noetica, which I... |
| 518 | Petition for the Pennsylvania Hospital, 23 January 1751 | 1751-01-23 | DS : Pennsylvania Hospital January 23, 1751 The founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital is one of... | ||
| 519 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 4 February … | 1751-02-04 | ALS : The Royal Society I receiv’d yours of Oct. 4. via New England, with the Account of what you... |
| 520 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 4 February … | 1751-02-04 | ALS : Yale University Library I wrote you per Capt. Budden, who sail’d the Beginning of December,... |
| 521 | Collinson, Peter | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 22 February … | 1751-02-22 | ALS : Yale University Library On the other Side is the Account of the Books I now send. I next... |
| 522 | Record of Birth and Baptism of James Madison, Jr., [16 … | 1751-03-16 | James Madison junr. was born on Tuesday Night at 12 o’Clock it being the last of the 5th. &... | ||
| 523 | Subscription for Christ Church Steeple, 18 March 1751 | 1751-03-18 | MS not found; reprinted from Benjamin Dorr, A Historical Account of Christ Church, Philadelphia... | ||
| 524 | Franklin, Benjamin | Parker, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Parker, 20 March 1751 | 1751-03-20 | Printed in [Archibald Kennedy], The Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the... |
| 525 | Collinson, Peter | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 27 March … | 1751-03-27 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am now so prodigiously Engagd as well in my publick... |
| 526 | Franklin, Benjamin | Experiments and Observations, [April 1751] | ≈1751-04-01 | Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, by Mr. Benjamin... | |
| 527 | Franklin, Benjamin | Felons and Rattlesnakes, 9 May 1751 | 1751-05-09 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette May 9, 1751. In the eulogy which he delivered before the... | |
| 528 | Franklin, Benjamin | An Act to Encourage the Establishing of an Hospital, 11 … | 1751-05-11 | Printed in [Acts of the Pennsylvania Assembly] Anno Regni Georgii II … Vigesimo Quarto … [October... | |
| 529 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 21 May 1751 | 1751-05-21 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library Budden is arrived, and every thing you sent per him come safe to... |
| 530 | Watson, William | William Watson: An Account of Franklin’s Treatise, [6 … | 1751-06-06 | MS : The Royal Society; also printed in Phil. Trans. , XLVII (1751–52), 202–11. An account of Mr.... | |
| 531 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 28 June 1751 | 1751-06-28 | ALS : New York Public Library I receiv’d yours of March 26. with the Books per Smith in good... |
| 532 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 29 June 1751 | 1751-06-29 | Copy: The Royal Society In Capt. Waddels Account *Ph. Tr. No. 492. p. III . of the Effects of... |
| 533 | Franklin, Benjamin | Proprietors | Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital: Memorial to the … | 1751-07-06 | DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also draft and copy in Minutes, Pennsylvania Hospital... |
| 534 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 11 July 1751 | 1751-07-11 | ALS (mutilated): Yale University Library I receiv’d your Favours of June [ and] July 4. I am... |
| 535 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 July 1751 | 1751-07-19 | MS not found; reprinted from Bigelow, Works (Federal Edition, 1904), XII , 253. This serves to... |
| 536 | Franklin, Benjamin | Appeal for the Hospital, 8 and 15 August 1751 | ≈1751-08-08 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 8 and 15, 1751. Among all the innumerable Species of... | |
| 537 | Franklin, Benjamin | Record of Service in the Assembly, 1751–64 | ≈1751-08-13 | AD : Library of Congress Near the end of his life, probably after his return from France, to... | |
| 538 | Pennsylvania Assembly Committee | Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on a Schuylkill … | 1751-08-20 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1750–1751 (Philadelphia,... | |
| 539 | Pennsylvania Assembly | Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 21 August … | 1751-08-21 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1750–1751 (Philadelphia,... | |
| 540 | Pennsylvania Assembly Committee | Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on Expenses for … | 1751-08-22 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1750–1751 (Philadelphia,... | |
| 541 | Pennsylvania Assembly | Pennsylvania Assembly: Resolutions on Expenses for … | 1751-08-22 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1750–1751 (Philadelphia,... | |
| 542 | Pennsylvania Assembly | Pennsylvania Assembly: Representation to the … | 1751-08-23 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1754–1755 (Philadelphia,... | |
| 543 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 5 September … | 1751-09-05 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society As you are curious in Electricity, I take the Freedom of... |
| 544 | Franklin, Benjamin | Eliot, Jared | From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 12 September … | 1751-09-12 | ALS : Yale University Library I receiv’d your Favour of last Month, with the 12 Essays. Sometime... |
| 545 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 22 September … | 1751-09-22 | ALS : Yale University Library My Daughter receiv’d her Books all in good Order, and thanks you... |
| 546 | Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital | Koplin, Matthias | Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital to Matthias … | 1751-10-05 | Draft: Pennsylvania Hospital The first real estate the Pennsylvania Hospital owned was a lot in... |
| 547 | Belcher, Jonathan | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Belcher, 7 October … | 1751-10-07 | Letterbook copy: Massachusetts Historical Society Mr. Warrell on his return from Philadelphia... |
| 548 | Franklin, Abiah | Franklin, Benjamin | Abiah Franklin to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, 14 … | 1751-10-14 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I did not rite to you last post but it was becase I was... |
| 549 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 24 October 1751 | 1751-10-24 | MS not found; reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of the Familiar Letters and... |
| 550 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 28 … | 1751-10-28 | Draft: New-York Historical Society I had the pleasure of receiving yours with the favour of a... |