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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 20 August … | 1758-08-20 | ALS : American Philosophical Society My Son I know intended writing to you this Morning, so as to... |
| 2 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [1759?] | ≈1759-01-01 | ALS : Library of Congress At length I have found an Hour, in which I think I may chat with my... |
| 3 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 4 May 1759 | 1759-05-04 | MS not found; reprinted from Smyth, Writings , III , 478–9. Hearing that you was in the Park last... |
| 4 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 14 February … | 1760-02-14 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I see I must overcome the Indolence so natural to old Men,... |
| 5 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [1760–1762] | ≈1760-05-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Among the surviving letters between Franklin and Mary... |
| 6 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [1760–1762] | ≈1760-05-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Here is a Coach from your House, and no Line to me from you.... |
| 7 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 1 May 1760 | 1760-05-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I embrace most gladly my dear Friend’s Proposal of a Subject... |
| 8 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 17 May 1760 | 1760-05-17 | ALS : Feehan Memorial Library, St. Mary of the Lake Seminary; transcript (part MS , part... |
| 9 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 11 June 1760 | 1760-06-11 | ALS : Library of Congress ’Tis a very sensible Question you ask, how the Air can affect the... |
| 10 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 13 September … | 1760-09-13 | ALS : Library of Congress I have your agreable Letter from Bristol, which I take this first... |
| 11 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [November … | ≈1760-11-01 | ALS : Library of Congress It is, as you observed in our late Conversation, a very general... |
| 12 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 30 March 1761 | 1761-03-30 | ALS : Yale University Library As you have been so good as to forgive my long Delay of writing to... |
| 13 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 7 July 1761 | 1761-07-07 | ALS : American Philosophical Society This is just to acquaint my dear Polly, that her good Mama,... |
| 14 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 10 August … | 1761-08-10 | ALS : Yale University Library I received yesterday my Papers. I had sent for them before to Mr.... |
| 15 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 29 October … | 1761-10-29 | ALS : American Philosophical Society My dear Polly’s good Mama bids me write two or three Lines... |
| 16 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 8 March 1762 | 1762-03-08 | ALS : Yale University Library Your good Mama has just been saying to me that she wonders what can... |
| 17 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 22 March 1762 | 1762-03-22 | MS not found; reprinted from Stan. V. Henkels, Catalogue No. 1262 (July 1, 1920), pp. 15–16. I... |
| 18 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 10 May 1762 | 1762-05-10 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received this Morning my dear Polley’s kind Present of two... |
| 19 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 24 May 1762 | 1762-05-24 | ALS : American Philosophical Society According to Promise I write on Monday to let my good Girl... |
| 20 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 7 June 1762 | 1762-06-07 | ALS : Yale University Library I received your Favour of the 27th. past, and have since expected... |
| 21 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to [Mary Stevenson], 21 June … | 1762-06-21 | Draft: Library of Congress; copy: American Philosophical Society Did you ever see People at work... |
| 22 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 11 August … | 1762-08-11 | ALS : Henry N. Haiken, New York City (1957) This is the best Paper I can get at this wretched... |
| 23 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 25 March 1763 | 1763-03-25 | ALS : Yale University Library Your pleasing Favour of Nov. 11 is now before me. It found me as... |
| 24 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 10 June 1763 | 1763-06-10 | ALS : Dartmouth College Library I wrote to my dear Friend’s good Mama to day, and said I should... |
| 25 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 27 June 1763 | 1763-06-27 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received here your kind little Letter of April 14. with... |
| 26 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 14 March 1764 | 1764-03-14 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have received your kind Letters of Augt. 30. and Nov. 16.... |
| 27 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 4 May 1764 | 1764-05-04 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Since making up my Packet for your good Mother, I have... |
| 28 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [12–16 … | ≈1764-12-12 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have once more the Pleasure of writing a Line to my dear... |
| 29 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 9 January … | 1765-01-09 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Your good Mama and myself are both of Opinion that the... |
| 30 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [15 June … | 1765-06-15 | AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Franklin did not know of the Message this Morning till... |
| 31 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 31 December … | 1765-12-31 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Thanks to you for the Garters, and for the Lines that... |
| 32 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [1767–1770] | ≈1767-01-01 | Fragment of draft: American Philosophical Society [ First part missing ] and a Train of various... |
| 33 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 26 March 1767 | 1767-03-26 | ALS : American Philosophical Society We want to hear how our dear Polly does after the Loss of... |
| 34 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 16 May 1767 | 1767-05-16 | ALS (two letters): American Philosophical Society I am unluckily so much engag’d that I cannot... |
| 35 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson: Verses on Her … | 1767-06-15 | AD (two copies): American Philosophical Society To Miss Stevenson, on her Birthday, June 15.... |
| 36 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 17 June 1767 | 1767-06-17 | ALS : Yale University Library We were greatly disappointed yesterday that we had not the... |
| 37 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 14 September … | 1767-09-14 | ALS : Library of Congress; incomplete copy: American Philosophical Society I am always pleas’d... |
| 38 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 9 October … | 1767-10-09 | ALS : Dr. William Hewson Baltzell, Philadelphia, Pa. (1957) I write this Line just to acquaint... |
| 39 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 20 July 1768 … | 1768-07-20 | Transcribed from ALS (in phonetic spelling): American Philosophical Society Many writers, from... |
| 40 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 28 September … | 1768-09-28 | Transcribed from the text in phonetic spelling in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political,... |
| 41 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [October? … | ≈1768-10-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I return my dear Polly her Letters with Thanks for the Sight... |
| 42 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 20 October … | 1768-10-20 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Last Night your good Mother receiv’d the enclos’d Letters... |
| 43 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 28 October … | 1768-10-28 | ALS : Princeton University Library I did not receive your Letter of the 26th till I came home... |
| 44 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [November? … | ≈1768-11-01 | AL : American Philosophical Society Inclos’d is a Letter from Mr. Coleman; it came under Cover of... |
| 45 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 27 June 1769 | 1769-06-27 | ALS : Library of Congress Agreable to your Orders delivered to me very punctually per Temple, I... |
| 46 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 2 September … | 1769-09-02 | ALS : Yale University Library Just come home from a Venison Feast, where I have drank more than a... |
| 47 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 22 January … | 1770-01-22 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Favour of Saturday early this Morning, and... |
| 48 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [before 10 … | ≈1770-05-31 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I send you a few of your Translations. I did not put your... |
| 49 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 31 May 1770 | 1770-05-31 | ALS (draft): Library of Congress I receiv’d your Letter early this Morning, and as I am so... |
| 50 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson Hewson, 18 … | 1770-07-18 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Yours of the 15th. informing me of your agreable Journey and... |