1To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Rhoads, 3 May 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I receiv’d thy kind Favour of Feb: 10 and am much oblig’d by the several usefull papers Pamphlets and Samples contain’d therein. Thy Friend Wooller has taken much Pains in explaining the Method of making our Houses secure from Fire—which I hope will be of great Service—we are much oblig’d to him. I have given several little Bitts of the Lime Stone to some...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Rhoads, 30 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Loxly going early in the Morning to Morrow for London, gives me the Opertunity of Acknowledging thy Favour per Falconer, which with several Canal Papers and Pamphlets came safe to Hand, and I hope will be usefull as I find the Reports of the great Engineers, Smeaton Brindly &ct concerning the Scotch Canal, contain a great deal of Instruction to us...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Rhoads, 29 October 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress Inclos’d are the Votes of the present Assembly. What happen’d last year I doubt not the Speaker has Communicated; this year they sat but a short time, chose their Officers and adjourn’d. Some Domestick Affairs of the Speakers call’d him out of Town Imiediately after he left the Chair; the Committee of Correspondance I presume will not meet till he returns. I have...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Rhoads, 14 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Bearer hereof Samuel Griffitts (Son of our late fellow Citizen William Griffitts decd.) is a virtuous youth in pursuit of Medical, & Chirurgical Knowledge to Attain which, he hath serv’d an Apprenticeship with an eminent professor in this City, And now intends to visit the proper places in Europe in order to Acquire such further Knowledge, &...