1From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 13 July 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Frederick R. Kirkland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1955) I received your obliging Favours of March 15. and May 21. and thank you for the Intelligence they contain, and for your kind Congratulations. The Proceedings of those mad People on the Frontiers, and the Countenance they receive, with the little care taken to suppress them, are really astonishing. But they and their Abetters are...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 5 [August] 1767 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , No. 5 (August 1, 1835), 65–6. I received your obliging favour of May 16. I am always glad to hear from you when you have Leisure to write, and I expect no Apologies for your not Writing. I wish all correspondence was on the Foot of Writing and answering when one can, or when one is dispos’d to it,...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 20 February 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , No. 5 (August 1, 1835), 66. I wrote you a few Lines per Capt. Falconer, and sent you Dr. Watson’s new Piece, of Experiments on Inoculation, which I hope will be agreeable to you. In yours of Nov. 20, you mention the Lead on the Stills or worms of Stills as a probable cause of the Drybellyach among Punch Drinkers in...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 7 September 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , no. 5 (August 1, 1835), 66–7; extract in American Philosophical Society Minutes. I have now before me your Favours of June 11, and July 15, I thank you for communicating to me the Observations of the Transit made by Messrs. Biddle & Bayley. I gave them Immediately to Mr. Maskelyn, the Astronomer Royal, who will...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 8 September 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania I am writing to you and all my friends by the packet that sails to morrow. This is only to cover the French work on Silk worms, said to be the best extant; which being too bulky to go per packet I send you by this ship. Some extracts may be made from it and published of the most useful directions; for it is like other French writings rather too wordy,...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 17 March 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Miss Harriet V. C. Ogden, Bar Harbor, Me. (1958). I received your Favour of Nov. 27. and thank you for the Information it contained relating to the Society. Mr. Ewing has transmitted to me Copies of the Observations of the Transits of Venus and Mercury which were made in Pensilvania. Those you sent me, made by Messrs. Biddle & Bayley, will, with the others, be printed, I suppose, in the...
7From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 27 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , No. 5 (Aug. 1, 1835), 92. I am favoured with yours of June 10. With this I send you our last Volume of Philosophical Transactions, wherein you will see printed the Observations of Messrs. Biddle and Bayley on the Transit, as well as those of Messrs. Mason and Dixon relating to the Longitude of Places. When you and...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 10 February 1771 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Samual Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , no. 5 (August 1, 1835), 92. Franklin’s efforts to promote the growing of silk in Pennsylvania were slowly bearing fruit. In 1769 he had urged Dr. Evans to seek help from the province; this suggestion had been laid before the American Philosophical Society, which had duly petitioned the Assembly for financial aid. When...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 4 July 1771 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , no. 5 (August 1, 1835), 92. I acquainted you some time since that I expected soon to obtain satisfactory Answers to your Queries relating to the Specimens of Silk you sent over; but I was disappointed till lately that I had a Meeting with Mr. Patterson, esteemed one of the best judges of that Commodity, who favoured...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 18 July 1771 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , No. 5 (August 1, 1835), 92–3. I wrote to you of the 4th instant per Gill, and sent you a Paper of Observations on your Specimens of Silk drawn up by Mr. Patterson, who is noted here in that Trade, with a Specimen of Italian Silk as a copy for our People to imitate. But they must not be discouraged if they should not...