11To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Jackson, [7 December 1768] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Library of Congress After a brief session in May, 1768, Parliament reconvened in November, and for the first time that year had an opportunity for a full debate on colonial affairs, especially the events in Massachusetts and the various petitions for repeal of the Townshend duties. The Christmas recess was impending, and nonimportation agreements were to begin in America on January 1,...
12To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Jackson, [27 July? 1771] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Does it suit you to go to Ireland with me in a week, a fortnight, or three weeks? I am sorry you leave London so soon, fearing as I do I may chance to miss seeing you. I wish much to hear from you a few of the Particulars you have heard of the Voyage of the Endeavour and of the Observations of the Passengers. I will try to see you before you leave London,...
13To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Jackson, [16 January? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I return you Monsr. D Anquetil’s Voyage, which I found reason to wish to read more attentively than I at first intended to have done. The Evident carelessness and Ignorance of the Author in many Points and his palpable Malignity against the whole English Nation, in general, notwithstanding he is obliged to confess the Civility he received from Particulars,...