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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4051 | Paine, Thomas | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Paine, 4 March 1775 | 1775-03-04 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am just now informed by Mr. Bache of a Vessel preparing to... |
| 4052 | Robeson, Andrew | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Andrew Robeson, 4 March 1775 | 1775-03-04 | ALS : American Philosophical Society An Opportunity offering, and the Committee not to be met... |
| 4053 | Lelyveld, Frans van | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Frans van Lelyveld, 11 March … | 1775-03-11 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The foregoing is a Copy of what I had the honour to write... |
| 4054 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marshall, Humphry | From Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, 13 March … | 1775-03-13 | AL : Yale University Library I duly receiv’d your Favour of Novr. the 26th, but having mislaid... |
| 4055 | Franklin, Benjamin | Thomson, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, 13 March … | 1775-03-13 | AL : National Archives, Washington I have some Thoughts of going with Osborne; but as I may be... |
| 4056 | Franklin, Benjamin | Kames, Henry Home, Lord | From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Kames, 14 March 1775 | 1775-03-14 | ALS : Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh Purposing to embark for America in a few Days, I cannot... |
| 4057 | Whitehurst, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Whitehurst, [before 16 … | ≈1772-01-01 | Printed in the Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions …, LXV (1775), pp. 277–9. Presuming the... |
| 4058 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bessborough, William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of | From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Bessborough, 16 March … | 1775-03-16 | AL : Yale University Library Dr. Franklin presents his respectful Compliments to Lord... |
| 4059 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of | Proposed Memorial to Lord Dartmouth, 16 March 1775 | 1775-03-16 | ADS and copy: Library of Congress; draft and copy: American Philosophical Society Franklin’s... |
| 4060 | Barclay, David Junior | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from David Barclay, 16 March 1775 | 1775-03-16 | AL : Library of Congress D: Barclay’s respects, and acquaints Dr. Franklin, that Dr. Fothergill... |
| 4061 | Walpole, Thomas | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Walpole, 16 March 1775 | 1775-03-16 | ALS and copy: Library of Congress Franklin’s anger at the ministry did not rob him of all... |
| 4062 | Franklin, Benjamin | Burdett, Peter P. | From Benjamin Franklin to [Peter P. Burdett], 17 March … | 1775-03-17 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Being about to embark for America this Line is just to... |
| 4063 | Todd, Anthony | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Todd, 17 March 1775 | 1775-03-17 | Letterbook copy: General Post Office, London Mr. Todd presents his Compliments to Dr. Franklin... |
| 4064 | Franklin, Benjamin | Todd, Anthony | From Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Todd, 18 March 1775 | 1775-03-18 | AL (letterbook draft): Library of Congress Dr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Todd, and... |
| 4065 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lee, Arthur | From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 19 March 1775 | 1775-03-19 | ALS : Harvard University Library I leave Directions with Mrs. Stevenson to deliver you all the... |
| 4066 | Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 19 … | 1775-03-19 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Votre derniere lettre m’ayant eté remise par Mr. Williams... |
| 4067 | Fothergill, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Fothergill, 19 March … | 1775-03-19 | ALS and extract: Library of Congress Be kind enough to take the charge of the inclosed and convey... |
| 4068 | Franklin, Benjamin | Stevenson, Margaret | Memorandum for Mrs. Stevenson, [on or before 20 March … | ≈1775-03-17 | AD : Dr. William Hewson, Philadelphia, Pa. (1957) Franklin, like so many travelers embarking on a... |
| 4069 | Shipley, Jonathan | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Shipley, [on or … | ≈1775-03-20 | ALS (incomplete): Yale University Library This fragment is now bound, in a volume of Franklin’s... |
| 4070 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin: Journal of … | 1775-03-22 | AD and copy: Library of Congress When Franklin at long last set sail for home, memories of the... |
| 4071 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin’s Purported Answer to a Nobleman’s Question on … | ≈1775-01-01 | MS : Library of Congress This document, of unknown provenance and in an unknown hand, is among... | |
| 4072 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dialogue between Britain, France, Spain, Holland … | ≈1774-01-01 | Copy: Library of Congress; copy: American Philosophical Society It has been demonstrated that... | |
| 4073 | Franklin, Benjamin | Fragment of a Letter to the Public Advertiser … | ≈1774-01-01 | AD: British Museum The presence of this fragment among the papers of Caleb Whitefoord in the... | |
| 4074 | Franklin, Benjamin | Fragments of Two Letters to the Press [?], [1774–75?] | ≈1774-01-01 | AD : American Philosophical Society These two scraps of Franklin’s ongoing argument for the... | |
| 4075 | Franklin, Benjamin | Request for a Printing, [1774–75?] | ≈1774-01-01 | AD : Library of Congress The background of this request has already been discussed in connection... | |
| 4076 | Franklin, Benjamin | Notes on Britain’s Intention to Enslave America … | ≈1774-01-01 | AD (draft): Library of Congress These notes are impossible to date. At the head of the sheet a... | |
| 4077 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Letter to Be Written by a Frenchman, [1774–75?] | ≈1774-01-01 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Unsolved problems in editing, as in other areas of... | |
| 4078 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to [William Strahan], [1759–62 … | ≈1759-01-01 | ALS (draft): Blumhaven Library (1957) I have perus’d the Parts you put into my Hands of the new... |
| 4079 | Franklin, Benjamin | Note on Franklin’s Sketch of How to Force a Wheel Round … | ≈1757-01-01 | AD : American Philosophical Society For some years we have been trying and failing to answer two... | |
| 4080 | Blunt, Dorothea | Franklin, Benjamin | Three Letters from Dorothea Blunt, [1770–75?] | ≈1770-01-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The letters that follow we have found impossible to date.... |
| 4081 | French, Katherine | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Katherine French, [1765?–75] | ≈1765-01-01 | AL : American Philosophical Society Mrs. French thinks it long since she had the pleasure of... |
| 4082 | Quincy, Josiah, Sr. | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Josiah Quincy, Sr., 25 March … | 1775-03-25 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society My dear Son has repeatedly acknowledged your friendly... |
| 4083 | Kinsey, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Kinsey, 26 March 1775 | 1775-03-26 | ALS : American Philosophical Society By the favor of Mr. Wister I transmitt the Votes and Laws of... |
| 4084 | Winthrop, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Winthrop, 28 March 1775 | 1775-03-28 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I did my self the honor to write you, 13 Septr last, by... |
| 4085 | Cooper, Samuel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Cooper, 1 April 1775 | 1775-04-01 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society; draft: British Museum I wrote you in Septr and Aug: last,... |
| 4086 | Lee, William | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from William Lee, 3 April 1775 | 1775-04-03 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote you the other day about an hundred pounds which the... |
| 4087 | Warren, Joseph | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Warren, 3 April 1775 | 1775-04-03 | ALS (facsimile): Massachusetts Historical Society Altho’ I have not the pleasure either of a... |
| 4088 | Foxcroft, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Foxcroft, 4 April 1775 | 1775-04-04 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Your very agreable favour of the 4th. of Janry. I rec’d by... |
| 4089 | Franklin, Benjamin | Speculation on the Speed of Ships, 5 April 1775 | 1775-04-05 | MS : Library of Congress During his homeward voyage Franklin took time off from writing his... | |
| 4090 | Franklin, Benjamin | Observations at Sea on Temperatures of Air and Water … | ≈1775-04-10 | Printed in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society . . ., II (1786), 325. On his... | |
| 4091 | Franklin, Benjamin | Trent, William | Franklin, Thomas Walpole, Samuel Wharton, and John … | 1775-04-11 | DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania The promoters of the Walpole grant in London were... |
| 4092 | Dalrymple, Alexander | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Dalrymple, 17 April … | 1775-04-17 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The Bearer Mr. William Whitchurch finding his Health much... |
| 4093 | Wharton, Samuel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Wharton, 17 April 1775 | 1775-04-17 | ALS : American Philosophical Society As Major Trent is the Bearer of this Letter, it is the less... |
| 4094 | Blunt, Dorothea | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Dorothea Blunt, 19 April 1775 | 1775-04-19 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have not been fortunate enough to be in Craven Street when... |
| 4095 | Stevenson, Margaret | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Margaret Stevenson, 24 April … | 1775-04-24 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have only time till [ to tell] you I hope your wellcom, to... |
| 4096 | Massachusetts Provincial Congress | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts Provincial … | 1775-04-26 | LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; draft: Massachusetts Archives; copies: National Archives... |
| 4097 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 6 May 1775 | 1775-05-06 | ALS : Dartmouth College Library What as far as we know was the first letter Franklin wrote after... |
| 4098 | Franklin, Benjamin | Galloway, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 8 May 1775 | 1775-05-08 | ALS : Mrs. Arthur Loeb, Philadelphia (1955) This short letter is tantalizingly uninformative. It... |
| 4099 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 8 May 1775 | 1775-05-08 | ALS : Harvard University Library I arrived here on Friday Evening, and the next morning was... |
| 4100 | Pennsylvania Assembly | Franklin, Benjamin | The Pennsylvania Assembly: Instructions to Its … | 1775-05-09 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the Province of Pennsylvania . . . (6 vols., Philadelphia,... |