91To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, [24 March 1776]: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: National Archives This paragraph extracted and translated from Dubourg’s letter, the...
92To Benjamin Franklin from David Barclay, 31 March 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This letter was written, a modern scholar has suggested, at...
93To Benjamin Franklin from Philip Schuyler, 13 April 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and copy: National Archives The lake is open in so many places that I am of opinion you may...
94Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 30 April[– 9 May 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AL and copy: National Archives; letterbook draft: Algemeen Rijksarchief, the Hague. J’ai reçu le...
95To Benjamin Franklin from Ebenezer Hazard, 3 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We have no News here, except that the last Phila. Post...
96To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 7 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am favored by yours of the 18th. Ultimo from Lake George;...
97To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase, 11 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress We are fully sensible of the great Risk of taking post at Dechambeau....
98To Benjamin Franklin from John Carroll, 11 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Henry E. Huntington Library Among the inclosed papers is an open letter to Genl. Schuyler...
99Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 14 May[–6 June 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AL and copy: National Archives; letterbook draft: Algemeen Rijksarchief, the Hague Après vous...
100To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 14 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We have not had the Pleasure of a Line from you since I last...
101To Benjamin Franklin from George Washington, 20 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society I do myself the pleasure to Transmit you the Inclosed Letter,...
102From George Washington to Benjamin Franklin, 20 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to Transmit you the Inclosed Letter, which I received yesterday with...
103To Benjamin Franklin from Ebenezer Hazard, [28 May? 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Hazard’s Compliments to Doctor Franklin. He will watch...
104To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Biddle, [June 1776 or early July 1776?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Biddle (1745–1812), the brother of the more famous naval...
105To Benjamin Franklin from [David Hartley], 8 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Transcript: Library of Congress It is so many months since I have heard from you that I fear the...
106To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 10 June[–2 July 1776] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives This letter, if Franklin received it when we think he did, brought him...
107To Benjamin Franklin from Lois Killcup, 10 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Docr. you will be surprisd to see this from an old frind...
108To Benjamin Franklin from William Prichard, 10 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society After being so far indebted to your clemency, nothing could...
109To Benjamin Franklin from William Lee, 11 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
AL (letterbook draft): Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Stratford Hall, Va. The Bill of Mess....
110To Benjamin Franklin from [Anthony Wayne], 13 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Historical Society of Pennsylvania The writer, later known as “mad Anthony,” needs no...
111Lambert Wickes to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 16 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives I received your orders and Instructions by Mr. Bingham, the 14th Inst....
112From George Washington to Benjamin Franklin, 17 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Inclosed Letter is the one I ask’d you in Philadelphia if you had received. It has undergone...
113To Benjamin Franklin from Lord Howe, 20 June[–12 July 1776] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: British Museum Franklin’s fellow negotiator in London, David Barclay, had written him in...
114To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Jefferson, [21 June 1776?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society This note has probably far more importance than appears on...
115From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, [21 June 1776?] (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper has been read and with some small alterations approved of by the committee....
116Silas Deane to Robert Morris and the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 23 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : (duplicate): Library of Congress This letter, in form to Morris but in fact to the...
117To Benjamin Franklin from Horatio Gates, 23 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives This will be presented you by The Chevallier de Kermovant, who left Old...
118To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Kermorvan, [27 June 1776] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Vous trouverez les trois volumes de depravation,...
119To Benjamin Franklin from Catharine Greene, 3 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I Gladly once more Welcom you To your own home though I...
120To Benjamin Franklin from Frederick William de Woedtke, 3 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Woedtke died shortly after writing this letter. It is part...
121To Benjamin Franklin from Frederick William de Woedtke, 4 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’espere que le s. Colonel Allen vous aura remise ma letter...
122To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 5 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives The news in this brief note, that France was arming and, Dubourg...
123Jasper Yeates to Franklin and James Wilson, 6 July 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania <Lancaster, July...
124Lambert Wickes to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 11 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives This will inform you of my proceedings since I left Cape May the 3d...
125To Benjamin Franklin from Noble Wimberly Jones, 11 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I received your kind favour of 12th Jany. but being out...
126Lambert Wickes to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, 13 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives This will inform of a Small Addition to our good fortune in the Prize...
127Virginia Delegates in Congress to the Speaker of the Pennsylvania Convention, 15 July 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
The honorable the convention of Virga. attending to the inconveniencies which may arise from an...
128To Benjamin Franklin from John Lawrence and William Smith, 19 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society At the Request of Mrs. Mecum (who has been an Inhabitant of...
129To Benjamin Franklin from William Alexander, 20 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I consider it as one of the great misfortunes of the times...
130To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Rush, [24 July or 31 or 7 August 1776] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Dr: Rush begs leave to inform Dr. Franklin that the members...
131To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Kermorvan, 26 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je jouis ici de la faveur de votre recommandation dans...
132From George Washington to Benjamin Franklin, 30 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Within these few days I have been favour’d with two Letters from you—the first cover’d one to...
133To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Wayne, 31 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society: AL (draft ): Historical Society of Pennsylvania We are so...
134To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel J. Atlee, 2 August 1776: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg <Perth Amboy, August 2, 1776: The service of the...
135To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre Penet, 3 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: South Carolina Historical Society We have the Honour to write you by Capn. Crawford of...
136To Benjamin Franklin from Charles-Guillaume-Frederic Dumas, 4 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
AL : (letterbook draft ): Algemeen Rijksarchief, the Hague A Gentleman belonging to Jam[aica] a...
137To Benjamin Franklin from Ray Greene, 4 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It would be Ungrateful in me not to Acknoqledge the many...
138To Benjamin Franklin from Elizabeth Franklin, 6 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Since the outbreak of hostilities William Franklin’s...
139To Benjamin Franklin from William Dunlap, 10 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Having lately labour’d under a most dangerous and severe Fit...
140To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Kermorvan, [12 August 1776?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai reçû l’honneur de votre Lettre. J’ai lû avec le plus...