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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 751 | Franklin, Benjamin | Cushing, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 2 December … | 1772-12-02 | ALS and incomplete copy: Public Record Office; letterbook draft: Library of Congress The... |
| 752 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de | From Benjamin Franklin to Sartine, 18 September 1779 | 1779-09-18 | Copy: Library of Congress I have examined the Papers which your Excellency did me the honour to... |
| 753 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jones, John Paul | From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 6 December … | 1779-12-06 | LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives As the... |
| 754 | Franklin, Benjamin | Walter, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Walter, 1 February 1785 | 1785-02-01 | Reprinted from John Walter, An Address to the Public, by J. Walter, Shewing the Great Improvement... |
| 755 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Jonathan Sr. | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Sr., 25 … | 1779-10-25 | LS : Yale University Library I received your kind Letters of July 29, and August 8. It was a... |
| 756 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hubbart, Elizabeth | From Benjamin Franklin to [Elizabeth Hubbart?], [16 … | 1755-10-16 | ALS (fragment): American Philosophical Society [ Missing ] Altar, to be an Anvill; the two... |
| 757 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 1 September … | 1752-09-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society This is only to enclose a second Bill for £20 Sterling,... |
| 758 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 5 May 1772 | 1772-05-05 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter of March 2. and am glad to hear... |
| 759 | Franklin, Benjamin | State of the Transaction at the Exchequer, 4 November … | 1760-11-04 | ADS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania State of the Transaction at the Exchequer, relating to... | |
| 760 | Franklin, Benjamin | Deane, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Deane, 11 April 1773 | 1773-04-11 | ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society Miss Martin that was, now Mrs. Blacker, being about... |
| 761 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 2 December … | 1772-12-02 | ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I have received yours of Oct. 4. 8. and 13. I cannot... |
| 762 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 10 July … | 1746-07-10 | ALS : New-York Historical Society I have your Favours of June 2d. and the 7th Instant. I thank... |
| 763 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ellis, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Ellis, 26 December 1773 | 1773-12-26 | ALS : Linnean Society, London I return the Book you were so kind to favour me with. Upon... |
| 764 | Franklin, Benjamin | Cushing, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 1 June 1774 | 1774-06-01 | ALS and copy: Public Record Office; draft: American Philosophical Society I received your... |
| 765 | Franklin, Benjamin | Childs, Francis | From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Childs, 8 February … | 1785-02-08 | ALS : National Archives I received your Letter of Nov. 13. with the preceding one therein... |
| 766 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to [Vergennes], 26 September … | 1780-09-26 | Copy: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress N’ayant aucun... |
| 767 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 2 February … | 1780-02-02 | Copy: Library of Congress It is some time since I procured the Discharge of your Capt.... |
| 768 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Jonathan Jr. | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 13 … | 1772-01-13 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received yours of Sept. [ blank ] and Nov. 4. It gave me... |
| 769 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lee, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William and Arthur Lee, 27 … | 1778-02-27 | AL : Pierpont Morgan Library; copy: University of Virginia Library Mr. Franklin presents his... |
| 770 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bancroft, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to [Edward Bancroft], [after 15 … | ≈1778-05-16 | AL : Princeton University Library Be so good as to answer to our Friend that it is impossible Mr.... |
| 771 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Jonathan | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, 25 … | 1762-11-25 | ALS : Mrs. George S. Maywood, Garden City, N.Y. (1955) I thank you for your kind Congratulations... |
| 772 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jones, John Paul | From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 5 July 1780 | 1780-07-05 | Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of June 21. with the Papers it inclosed from M. Genet,... |
| 773 | Franklin, Benjamin | Banks, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 27 July 1783 | 1783-07-27 | ALS : British Library; copy: Library of Congress In this letter, prompted by Banks’s overture of... |
| 774 | Franklin, Benjamin | Certificate for a Georgia Lieutenant, [31 August 1779] | 1779-08-31 | AD (draft): American Philosophical Society I do hereby certify whom it may concern, that to my... | |
| 775 | Franklin, Benjamin | Read, Sarah | Receipt to Sarah Read, 21 October 1746 | 1746-10-21 | MS Receipt Book: American Philosophical Society Among Franklin’s papers in the American... |
| 776 | Franklin, Benjamin | Winthrop, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Winthrop, 11 March 1769 | 1769-03-11 | ALS : American Philosophical Society At length after much Delay and Difficulty I have been able... |
| 777 | Franklin, Benjamin | Remarks on Agriculture and Manufacturing, [late 1771?] | ≈1771-01-01 | AD : Yale University Library These comments, although they have been assigned to an earlier date,... | |
| 778 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dick, Sir Alexander | From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Alexander Dick, 3 January … | 1760-01-03 | ALS : New York Public Library After we took leave of you, we spent some Weeks in Yorkshire and... |
| 779 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin’s Sketch of Articles of Peace, [between 10 and … | ≈1782-12-10 | Copy: South Carolina Historical Society That there shall be a firm & perpetual Peace &ca. A... | |
| 780 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marignac | From Benjamin Franklin to Marignac, 31 October 1781 | 1781-10-31 | Copy: Library of Congress Made Montgomery qui me fait l’honneur de se charger de celle cy, est... |
| 781 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Alexander | From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, 2 February … | 1773-02-02 | ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I receiv’d yours of Dec. 2. enclosing a Bill Hancock... |
| 782 | Franklin, Benjamin | Penington, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Penington, 9 January … | 1762-01-09 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I receiv’d your Favour of Oct. 21 . with one enclos’d for... |
| 783 | Franklin, Benjamin | Walterstorff, Ernst Frederik von | From Benjamin Franklin to Ernst Frederik von … | 1784-09-02 | Press copy of AL : Library of Congress On August 30 the three ministers newly commissioned by... |
| 784 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jones, Noble Wimberly | From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 7 June … | 1770-06-07 | ALS : Bibliothèque Municipale de Nantes I wrote to you sometime since that I had receiv’d your... |
| 785 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 5 October … | 1768-10-05 | ALS : Cornell University Library It feels very strange to me to have Ships and Packets come in,... |
| 786 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 29 July 1754 | 1754-07-29 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am just return’d from Albany, where were Commissioners... |
| 787 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bull, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Bull, 26 August 1776 | 1776-08-26 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have the Pleasure to acquaint you, that upon the Reading... |
| 788 | Franklin, Benjamin | Certification of a Signature, [29 March 1780] | 1780-03-29 | AD (draft): University of Pennsylvania Library I do hereby certify that the Signature P Henry to... | |
| 789 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 10 June … | 1770-06-10 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letters of March 12 and April 24. I... |
| 790 | Franklin, Benjamin | Washington, George | To George Washington from Benjamin Franklin, 3 April … | 1787-04-03 | I have often thought that the Number of People, who by Curiosity and the Admiration of your... |
| 791 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 8 August … | 1754-08-08 | ALS : Yale University Library The above is Copy of my last. Not receiving the Printing House as... |
| 792 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marignac | From Benjamin Franklin to Marignac, 16 April 1781 | 1781-04-16 | Press copy: American Philosophical Society I received your Favour of the 21st February; It was a... |
| 793 | Franklin, Benjamin | Livingston, Robert R. | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert R. Livingston, 15 July … | 1782-07-15 | LS : New-York Historical Society I have just received your No 11. dated the 22d. of May. This... |
| 794 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Busy-Body, No. 4, 25 February 1729 | 1729-02-25 | Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 25, 1728/9. Nequid nimis. In my first Paper I... | |
| 795 | 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... |
| 796 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marginalia in The True Constitutional Means, an … | ≈1769-01-01 | MS notations in the margins of a copy in the New York Public Library of The True Constitutional... | |
| 797 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 27 March 1779 | 1779-03-27 | LS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress J’ai l’honneur de remettre a votre... |
| 798 | Franklin, Benjamin | Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel du Pont de … | 1772-08-12 | ALS : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum I am concern’d to understand lately that you have... |
| 799 | Franklin, Benjamin | Le Despencer, Francis Dashwood, Baron | From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Le Despencer, 14 April … | 1774-04-14 | ALS : Dashwood Papers, Bodleian Library I apprehend there will hardly be room for so much , in... |
| 800 | Franklin, Benjamin | Stiles, Ezra | From Benjamin Franklin to Ezra Stiles, 19 June 1764 | 1764-06-19 | ALS : Yale University Library I sent you some time last Fall a Set of Chinese Prints, or rather... |