1To Benjamin Franklin from John Pringle, [May? 1763] (Franklin Papers)
AL (incomplete and mutilated): American Philosophical Society [ Torn ] would take the liberty of recommending [ torn ], who had been put in by Lord Bute, and [ torn: we]ll qualified for his office. His Lordship then [ torn ] heard the young gentleman had ene[ torn ]ying that, I took an opportunity of telling [ torn: ima]gined it came about. Lord Shelburne made no promises, but [ torn ] hear me...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [March 1767] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I take the liberty to beg that You would come as soon as You can to the Duke of Ancaster’s in Berkeley Square, as His Grace and the Duchess are in the greatest distress about their daughter, who has been long in a most Miserable condition with spasms and convulsions. After all that we have done the distemper remains obstinate, and therefore the Parents have...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [1768?]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society [Wednesday evening (1768?): an invitation to dine next Friday at 3:30 to meet Dr. Hoare. ] Perhaps Joseph Hoare, the newly appointed principal of Jesus College, Oxford. Hoare had served as proxy for the King at the marriage in Germany of the future Queen Charlotte in 1761, and might well have come to know Pringle as the Queen’s physician. If so the earliest...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [June? 1769] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Sir John Pringle’s Compliments to Dr. Franklin, and begs to introduce to his acquaintance the bearer Dr. Starck who has lately made the curious experiments on living on bread and water, and who wanting to make a pair of nice scales for weighing himself in this prosecution of those experiments Sir J.P. has taken this liberty to address him to Dr. F. for his...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, 6 December 1771: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society <Friday, December 6, [1771 ], a note in the third person. Requests Franklin’s company at dinner next Sunday to meet Mlle. Biheron and Dr. Ingenhousz before the latter’s departure.> During BF ’s second mission Dec. 6 fell on a Friday in 1765 and 1771, and the latter was almost certainly the year. BF ’s papers first refer to Mlle. Biheron and Ingenhousz in...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, 16 December 1771: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society <December 16, [1771], a note in the third person. Requests the company of Franklin and Mr. “Beech” at dinner next Wednesday at half past three. > Richard Bache had returned to London with BF from Preston.
7To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [before 30 September? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society For some nine years William Hewson and Dr. William Hunter were partners in a course in anatomy that they gave for medical students, until Hunter dissolved the partnership. Hewson then decided to give a course of his own, and accordingly spent the winter and spring of 1772 in making anatomical preparations to be used in his lectures, which began on Sept. 30,...
8To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [December 1773?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Dr. Pringle’s Compliments to Dr. Franklin and if he is to be at home this evening and at leisure Dr. P. will wait upon him and play at chess. Mean while Dr. P. returns Dr. F. the French letter which he was to shew to C. Castries [?]. He sends him a small piece upon Electricity, sometime ago sent to Dr. P. from Germany, but which Dr. P. has not yet...