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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 661 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 30 December … | 1754-12-30 | ALS : University of Rochester Library; also transcript: Massachusetts Historical Society The... |
| 662 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shirley, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, [30 December … | 1754-12-30 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I return your Excellency the Papers you have been pleas’d... |
| 663 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Plan for Settling Two Western Colonies, 1754 | ≈1754-01-01 | Reprinted from Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces; …... | |
| 664 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 1754 | ≈1754-01-01 | AL : American Philosophical Society Send 50 Reams largest Demi to Mr. Daniel, Printer at Jamaica.... |
| 665 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1755 | ≈1755-01-01 | Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris … for the Year of our Lord 1755 . … By... | |
| 666 | Franklin, Benjamin | Birkett, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Birkett, 1 March 1755 | 1755-03-01 | ALS : Yale University Library I am but just returned from a long Journey, after near 6 Months... |
| 667 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ray, Catharine | From Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, 4 March 1755 | 1755-03-04 | ALS : New York Public Library Your kind Letter of January 20. is but just come to hand, and I... |
| 668 | Franklin, Benjamin | Scheme of the Second Academy Lottery, 11 March 1755 | 1755-03-11 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , March 11, 1755. Before their lottery for 3000 pieces of... | |
| 669 | Franklin, Benjamin | Leverett, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John and Thomas Leverett, 11 … | 1755-03-11 | ALS : Yale University Library Mrs. Franklin is confident that she sent 20 Reams of the Paper I... |
| 670 | Franklin, Benjamin | Electrical Experiments, 14 March 1755 | 1755-03-14 | Copy: The Royal Society Electrical Experiments , made in pursuance of those per Mr. Canton, dated... | |
| 671 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 16 March 1755 | 1755-03-16 | ALS : Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sang, Chicago, Illinois (1959) I am pleas’d to hear you are looking out... |
| 672 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lining, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, 18 March 1755 | 1755-03-18 | MS not found; reprinted from Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity... |
| 673 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert Hunter | Franklin and Hall to Robert Hunter Morris, 20 March … | 1755-03-20 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also copy: Public Record Office, London When he had... |
| 674 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 23 March … | 1755-03-23 | ALS : American Philosophical Society This only serves to cover a Bill of Exchange for Twenty... |
| 675 | Franklin, Benjamin | Ray, Catharine | From Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, [March … | ≈1755-03-01 | ALS (fragment): American Philosophical Society [I told him that as] I did not know her, I must... |
| 676 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 3 April 1755 | 1755-04-03 | ALS : Mrs. Marietta Myers, Elkhart, Indiana (1957) Your Commissioner or Agent Mr. Quincey has... |
| 677 | Franklin, Benjamin | Fothergill, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Fothergill, 6 April 1755 | 1755-04-06 | AL : American Philosophical Society I am but just return’d from a long Journey, having been... |
| 678 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 13 April … | 1755-04-13 | ALS : American Philosophical Society We got well over here last Night about 8 aClock. I believe I... |
| 679 | Franklin, Benjamin | Memorandum of Wagon Accounts, 23 April 1755 | 1755-04-23 | AD : American Philosophical Society Much of Franklin’s thought and energy in the spring and... | |
| 680 | Franklin, Benjamin | Advertisement for Wagons, 26 April 1755 | 1755-04-26 | Broadside: American Philosophical Society; also Boston Public Library Whereas 150 Waggons, with 4... | |
| 681 | Franklin, Benjamin | Wright, Susanna | From Benjamin Franklin to Susanna Wright, [28 April … | 1755-04-28 | ALS : Collection of the late Frank J. Mather., Jr., Princeton, N.J. (1955); also transcript: John... |
| 682 | Franklin, Benjamin | Advertisement to Wagoners, 6 May 1755 | 1755-05-06 | Broadside: Yale University Library Notice is hereby given to all who have contracted to send... | |
| 683 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert Hunter | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, [18 … | 1755-05-18 | MS not found; reprinted from Pennsylvania Archives , series I , II , 297. On May 10 General... |
| 684 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shirley, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, 22 May 1755 | 1755-05-22 | ALS : Massachusetts Archives Mr. Norris not being in Town, your Excellency’s Letter of the 14th... |
| 685 | Franklin, Benjamin | Advertisement for Wagons, 22 May 1755 | 1755-05-22 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , May. 22, 1755 Forty-One Waggons are immediately wanted, to... | |
| 686 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shippen, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Shippen, 24 May 1755 | 1755-05-24 | ALS : Library of Congress In addition to supplying wagons Franklin contributed to Braddock’s... |
| 687 | Franklin, Benjamin | Pennsylvania Hospital Cornerstone Inscription, [28 May … | 1755-05-28 | AD : Pennsylvania Hospital By midsummer of 1754 the Hospital’s resources were sufficient to allow... | |
| 688 | Franklin, Benjamin | Peters, Secretary | To——, 29 May 1755 | 1755-05-29 | LS and draft minutes: Yale University Library The Committee hereby acquaint you that the House... |
| 689 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shippen, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Shippen, 29 May 1755 | 1755-05-29 | ALS : Princeton University Library The Committee have just ordered 100 Dollars into the Hands of... |
| 690 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bickner, John | Pass for John Bickner and John Myfeld, 30 May 1755 | 1755-05-30 | ADS : American Philosophical Society Persons volunteering to work on the military road in... |
| 691 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shippen, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Shippen, 2 June 1755 | 1755-06-02 | ALS : G. Willing Pepper, Philadelphia (1956) I am sorry it so happened that you had no Money put... |
| 692 | Franklin, Benjamin | Fisher, Daniel | From Benjamin Franklin to Daniel Fisher, [4 June 1755] | 1755-06-04 | MS not found; reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XVII (1893),... |
| 693 | Franklin, Benjamin | Peters, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Peters, 5 June 1755 | 1755-06-05 | ALS : Stanford University Library I sent Mr. Burd’s Letter and yours which were given me by the... |
| 694 | Franklin, Benjamin | Norris, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Norris, 12 June 1755 | 1755-06-12 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania June 12th 1755 pd £100. 0. 0 Cash 50. 0. 0 Notes £150.... |
| 695 | Franklin, Benjamin | Preamble for a Bill, [18 June 1755] | 1755-06-18 | Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania On April 2 the Assembly had voted £15,000 from funds of... | |
| 696 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 26 June 1755 | 1755-06-26 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library Mr. Bartram brings a Box to my House, which has a little Vacancy in... |
| 697 | Franklin, Benjamin | Wright, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Wright, 26 June 1755 | 1755-06-26 | Transcript: John L.W. Mifflin, Middlebush, N.J. (1955) I am glad to learn that the Flour is... |
| 698 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dalibard, Thomas-François | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas-François Dalibard, 29 … | 1755-06-29 | Copy (extract): The Royal Society; printed (in full) in Benjamin Franklin, Expériences et... |
| 699 | Franklin, Benjamin | Wright, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Wright, 3 July 1755 | 1755-07-03 | ALS : Yale University Library Before this reaches you, you will have heard that the House is... |
| 700 | Franklin, Benjamin | Stiles, Ezra | From Benjamin Franklin to Ezra Stiles, 10 July 1755 | 1755-07-10 | ALS : Yale University Library This is only to acknowledge the Receipt of three very agreable... |
| 701 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rules and Statutes of the College, Academy, and Charity … | 1755-07-11 | MS Minutes: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania The trustees of the College of... | |
| 702 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin and Hall: Notice to Subscribers, 17 July 1755 | 1755-07-17 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July. 17, 1755. Whereas an advertisement was published... | |
| 703 | Franklin, Benjamin | Fisher, Daniel | From Benjamin Franklin to Daniel Fisher, 28 July 1755 | 1755-07-28 | MS not found; reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , XVII (1893),... |
| 704 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Parable against Persecution, [July 1755] | ≈1755-07-01 | Copy: Miss Ailsa Joan Mary Dick-Cunyngham, Prestonfield House, Edinburgh (1955) Written in the... | |
| 705 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Parable on Brotherly Love, [July 1755] | ≈1755-07-01 | Copy: American Philosophical Society; also copy: Liverpool Record Office In a letter to Benjamin... | |
| 706 | Franklin, Benjamin | Peters, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Peters, [c. 1 August … | 1755-08-01 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The House is not yet together: But the Speaker and a Number... |
| 707 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Johnson, 11 August … | 1755-08-11 | ALS : American Antiquarian Society I received your Favour of the 1st Instant, and have forwarded... |
| 708 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 August … | 1755-08-25 | MS not found; reprinted from Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity... |
| 709 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 27 August … | 1755-08-27 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I received your Favours of May 28 and June 1. I believe I have... |
| 710 | Franklin, Benjamin | Eliot, Jared | From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 31 August 1755 | 1755-08-31 | ALS : Yale University Library I have been employ’d almost all this Summer in the Service of our... |