1From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Becket, 17 December 1763 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Columbia University Library I have received yours of Sept. 12. with the Pamphlets, as mentioned. I have before acknowledged yours of June 24, which came duly to hand with the Books &c. I approve of your continuing Les Arts et Metieres. The Directors of the Library Company thought the Books you sent them rather higher charg’d than usual; they had therefore, before I came home, fallen on...