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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 801 | Franklin, Benjamin | Pownall, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Pownall, [9 September … | 1756-09-09 | Extract: Huntington Library; Public Record Office, London The circular Letter You show’d me the... |
| 802 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 23 September … | 1756-09-23 | Duplicate: Pierpont Morgan Library I enclose three Bills, viz. A second for £50 Sterling, drawn... |
| 803 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mutiny Act, [4 November 1756] | 1756-11-04 | Reprinted (in part only) from The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 , V (Wm.... | |
| 804 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 5 November … | 1756-11-05 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library; also extract: The Royal Society The above is a Copy of my last,... |
| 805 | Franklin, Benjamin | Draft of a Speech for William Denny, [12 November 1756] | 1756-11-12 | AD : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission At the Council meeting following receipt of... | |
| 806 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 13 November … | 1756-11-13 | MS not found; reprinted from William Duane, ed., The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin , VI... |
| 807 | Franklin, Benjamin | Draft of a Speech for William Denny, [15 November 1756] | 1756-11-15 | Copy : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Teedyuscung, responding to Denny’s “Question... | |
| 808 | Franklin, Benjamin | Draft for a Speech by William Denny, [17 November 1756] | 1756-11-17 | Draft: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission On November 16, Teedyuscung replied to... | |
| 809 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 22 November … | 1756-11-22 | Duplicate: Pierpont Morgan Library; also extract: The Royal Society Since mine of the 5th... |
| 810 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 19 December … | 1756-12-19 | Duplicate: Pierpont Morgan Library I have now the Pleasure of yours of the 7th and 10th. of... |
| 811 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bouquet, Henry | From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Bouquet with Memoranda … | 1756-12-26 | Letter: Draft: Library of Congress. Memoranda: I and II : Library of Congress; III : American... |
| 812 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward and Jane Mecom, 30 … | 1756-12-30 | ALS : American Philosophical Society You will receive this by the Hand of your Son Benjamin, on... |
| 813 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 31 December … | 1756-12-31 | ALS : Free Library of Philadelphia This serves only to cover a Bill of Exchange drawn by B. Mecom... |
| 814 | Franklin, Benjamin | Queries on Frontier Settlement and Defense, 1756 | ≈1756-01-01 | MS not found; reprinted from William Duane, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin … with a Postliminious... | |
| 815 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1757 | ≈1757-01-01 | Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris … for the Year of our Lord 1757: … By... | |
| 816 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 1 January … | 1757-01-01 | Original ALS not found; duplicate: Pierpont Morgan Library I wrote you yesterday a Line or two... |
| 817 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 1 January … | 1757-01-01 | ALS : Rosenbach Foundation; duplicate: Huntington Library I wrote you a Line or two yesterday,... |
| 818 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hubbart, Elizabeth | From Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbart, 13 January … | 1757-01-13 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Your Story is well told and entertaining Only let me... |
| 819 | Franklin, Benjamin | Memorandum on Allowances for Officers’ Quarters, 20 … | 1757-01-20 | Draft: Library of Congress The Commissioners voted to allow the Officers of the King’s Forces,... | |
| 820 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 31 January … | 1757-01-31 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library The preceding are Copies of my late Letters; to which I have little... |
| 821 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 31 January … | 1757-01-31 | ALS : Huntington Library The above is a Copy of my last I have now before me your Favour of Sept.... |
| 822 | Franklin, Benjamin | Charles, Robert | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Charles, 1 February … | 1757-02-01 | Draft: American Philosophical Society I receiv’d your several Favours of August 14. Sept. 18... |
| 823 | Franklin, Benjamin | Partridge, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Partridge, 1 February … | 1757-02-01 | Draft: American Philosophical Society It is long since I had any of your Favours. I should now... |
| 824 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 21 February 1757 | 1757-02-21 | MS not found; reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of the Familiar Letters and... |
| 825 | Franklin, Benjamin | Coleman, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Coleman, 22 February … | 1757-02-22 | Copy, MS minutes: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Recollecting Coll. Ludwell’s... |
| 826 | Franklin, Benjamin | Parsons, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Parsons, 22 February … | 1757-02-22 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I thank you for the Intelligence from Fort Allen, relating... |
| 827 | Franklin, Benjamin | Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of | From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun, 3 March … | 1757-03-03 | ALS : Huntington Library I thank your Lordship for the Information you have been pleas’d to... |
| 828 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ray, Catharine | From Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, 3 March 1757 | 1757-03-03 | MS not found; reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of the Familiar Letters and... |
| 829 | Franklin, Benjamin | Authorization to William Frizzel to Carry Mail, 10 … | 1757-03-10 | ADS : Princeton University Library I do hereby permit William Frizzel, to carry and deliver... | |
| 830 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Testimonial, 11 March 1757 | 1757-03-11 | Printed in John Gordon’s Mathematical Traverse Table, &c . Printed in the Year 1758, and Sold by... | |
| 831 | Franklin, Benjamin | Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of | From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun: Answers … | 1757-03-21 | AD : Huntington Library When news that Lord Loudoun intended to hold a council of war in... |
| 832 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ward, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Ward, 24 March 1757 | 1757-03-24 | ALS : Nantucket Atheneum I inclose you some of the Grain called Whisk Corn, or Broom Corn. It... |
| 833 | Hughes, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Hughes with Franklin’s … | 1757-03-24 | I. MS not found; reprinted from Pennsylvania History , VI (1939), 15; II. ADS : Yale University... |
| 834 | Denny, William | Ourry, Lewis | William Denny, Franklin, and the Provincial … | 1757-03-29 | ADS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Per Week Col. 20 s . Pay to Lieut. Lewis Ourry, or... |
| 835 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bill to the Proprietors, 30 March 1757 | 1757-03-30 | ADS : Friends Library of the Society of Friends, London; also copy: Historical Society of... | |
| 836 | Franklin, Benjamin | Philadelphia Post Office Accounts, 1757–1764 | ≈1757-03-30 | MS account papers: American Philosophical Society In addition to the Philadelphia Post Office... | |
| 837 | Franklin, Benjamin | Account of Expenses, 1757–1762 | ≈1757-04-01 | MS account book: American Philosophical Society “Account of Expences of my Voyage to England... | |
| 838 | Franklin, Benjamin | Norris, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Norris, 2 April 1757 | 1757-04-02 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania The enclos’d Account was settled by the late... |
| 839 | Franklin, Benjamin | Receipt for Bills of Exchange, 3 April 1757 | 1757-04-03 | ADS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania List of Bills of Exchange Sterling Scot & McMichael... | |
| 840 | Franklin, Benjamin | Memorandum Book, 1757–1776 | ≈1757-04-03 | MS account book: American Philosophical Society [April 3, 1757] Before leaving for England... | |
| 841 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dunlap, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Dunlap, 4 April 1757 | 1757-04-04 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I now appoint you Postmaster of Philadelphia, during our... |
| 842 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | Power of Attorney to Deborah Franklin, 4 April 1757 | 1757-04-04 | Printed form with MS insertions in blanks: American Philosophical Society Know all Men by these... |
| 843 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 5 April … | 1757-04-05 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Franklin and his son left Philadelphia on Monday, April 4,... |
| 844 | Franklin, Benjamin | Galloway, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 11 April … | 1757-04-11 | ALS : Yale University Library I received the Exemplifications of the Royal Grant, Charter and... |
| 845 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hazard, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Hazard, 11 April 1757 | 1757-04-11 | Copy: American Philosophical Society Your Absence when the Business was to be done for Mr.... |
| 846 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bouquet, Henry | From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Bouquet, 14 April 1757 | 1757-04-14 | Draft: American Philosophical Society I thank you for the Letter you have favour’d me with to... |
| 847 | Franklin, Benjamin | Garden, Alexander | From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Garden, 14 April … | 1757-04-14 | Draft: American Philosophical Society I am here waiting the Departure of the Pacquet in which I... |
| 848 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lining, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, 14 April 1757 | 1757-04-14 | Copy: Yale University Library; also draft (incomplete): American Philosophical Society It is a... |
| 849 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 19 April 1757 | 1757-04-19 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote a few Lines to you yesterday, but omitted to answer... |
| 850 | Franklin, Benjamin | Parker, James | Commission to James Parker as Comptroller of the Post … | 1757-04-22 | Draft: American Philosophical Society Sometime after their appointment as joint deputy... |