1From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Franklin, 7 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Mr. John H. Bradshaw, Lahaska, Pa. (1975); letterbook draft: Library of Congress; transcript: New England Historic, Genealogical Society I received your kind Letter of Nov. 6. and was glad to hear of the Welfare of yourself and Family, which I hope continues. Sally Franklin is lately married to Mr. James Pierce, a substantial young Farmer at Ewell, about 13 Miles from London; a very...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Franklin, 13 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter of Nov. 8. and rejoice to hear of the continued Welfare of you and your good Wife and four Daughters: I hope they will all get good Husbands. I dare say they will be educated so as to deserve them. I knew a wise old Man, who us’d to advise his young Friends to chuse Wives out of a Bunch; for where there were...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Franklin, 12 July 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New-York Historical Society I received your kind Letter of May 17. and rejoice to hear that you and your good Family are well. My Love to them. With this I send you the Print you desire for Mr. Bowen. He does me Honour in accepting it. Sally Franklin presents her Duty to you and Mrs. Franklin. Yesterday a very odd Accident happened, which I must mention to you as it relates to your...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Franklin, 8 June 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from [Jared Sparks, ed.,] A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Boston, 1833), pp. 132–3. I received your kind letter of the 23d of March. I was happy to find that neither you, nor any of your family, were in the way of those murderers. I hope that before this time the town is quite freed from such dangerous and mischievous inmates. I...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Franklin, 17 July 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New-York Historical Society; transcript: New England Historic Genealogical Society I should sooner have answered your kind Letters of last Year, but postpon’d it from time to time having mislaid the Print I intended to send you, which I have now found and send herewith. I am glad to hear of the Welfare of you and your Family, which I hope will long continue. My Love to them all. It gives...