81To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, [18 May 1781] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Voulez vous bien que je vous demande, mon illustre Docteur, ce qui en est de lavantage, qu’on dit que Le Genl Greene a remporté Sur le General Cornwallis, dans la caroline Septentrionale; loin d’en avoir été battu, comme l’ont dit, des lettres d’Ecosse? Si vous avez recu quelques nouvelles d’Amerique à ce Sujet, ou Si notre cour en a euës? Un mot De réponse...
82To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, [24 June 1777] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your grandson M. Franklin told me Yesterday as I was coming from Paris That you were so good to invite The whole family to dinner for next friday, Me. LeRoy I and the little Basil. But as M. Franklin seemed to me not very certain of the Day I sent my man to ask you whether Your Dinner is really for friday and not for Thursday because as I go to morrow to...
83From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 17 May 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is long since I have had the Pleasure of hearing from you. I hope your Health continues, and that your valuable Life will be long preserved. This will be presented to you by Mr. Smith, a young American Gentleman, of liberal Education and excellent Character, who is desirous of seeing your fine Country, the first in Europe, before he returns to his own....
84From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 22 June 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society However glad I am of the Occasion, I forbore indulging my self in the Pleasure of congratulating by the first Post my dear double Confrere, on his Election into our Royal Society; because Mr. Walsh undertook to give you the Information, which would make a Second Expence unnecessary, and I saw I should soon have this opportunity by the favour of M....
85From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 5 December 1774: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Extracts and paraphrase: Sothebys & Co. sale catalogue, April 8–9, 1974, p. 93 <London, December 5, 1774: Introduces Mr. Bennet, “one of your Confreres of the Royal Society, a Gentleman of the most amiable Character, and my particular Friend,” who wishes to see the Académie royale des sciences. Adds that the Royal Society “met on Wednesday last, and rechose our Friend Sir John Pringle to be...
86From Benjamin Franklin to [Jean-Baptiste LeRoy], [22?] September 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society Soon after my Arrival in London, [I sent you] by Mr. Lettsom, a Quaker Physician, one of the [ torn ] Achromatic Glasses Compleat; which I hope you received safe. By your good Brother I send you three of the Glasses we talk’d of, and which you will find describ’d in one of my Printed Letters. Our Astronomers knew nothing before our Return of the...
87From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 25 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: American Philosophical Society Enclosed I send you a Letter and sundry Papers I lately recd from Mr. Eckhardt of Utrecht, a most ingenious Mechanician whom I first knew in London. You will see what he desires, and what Answer I have made him. If you can do him any Service, I need not pray you to do it, because you have a Pleasure in assisting Genius: Show if you please what he says of...
88From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 30 March 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society You punish my delay of writing to you very properly by not writing to me. It is long since I have had the Pleasure of hearing from you: But it is my fault: and I must for my own sake write to you oftener tho’ I have little to say, or you will quite forget me. I thank you for your Advice to send an English Copy of my Writings to the Academy, and shall...
89From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 31 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I received your obliging Favour of Nov. 15. I presented your Compliments to Sir John Pringle, who was glad with me to hear of your Welfare, and desired me to offer his best Respects whenever I wrote to you. The Farmers Letters were written by one Mr. Dickinson of Philadelphia, and not by me as you seem to suppose. I only caus’d them to be reprinted here with that...
90From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 14 March 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; draft dated January 31, 1768, also in American Philosophical Society. Whenever I reflect, as I often do, on the kind Reception I met with at Paris, and the Civilities heap’d upon me there by that People, the politest sure of all Mankind, I dwell with particular Pleasure on the Remembrance of my Acquaintance with you, which I esteem as one of the happiest...