1David Hartley to the American Peace Commissioners, 4 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
It is with the sincerest Pleasure that I congratulate you on the happy Event which took
Place Yesterday, viz., the Signature of the Definitive Treaty between our two Countries.
I consider it as the auspicious Presage of returning Confidence, and of the future...
2To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 7 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
and shall certainly set off very early tomorrow
morning. Pray give my best compts to Mr & Mrs Jay & to Mr Willm Franklin. I wish
you all health till I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again.
3From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, 7 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...Age, by the rapid Population of the Country. If you should arrive there while I live, you know you may depend on every Assistance in my Power to afford you, and I think my Children will have a Pleasure too in serving their Father’s Friend. I do not offer it as a Motive that you will be much esteem’d and respected there, for that you are & must be every where; but give me leave...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin West, 7 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
I could not deprive myself the pleasure of convaying these few lines to you by my
friend Mr. Dagge, ...with the pleasing expectation of seeing you once more among them on the return of pice; And altho they have been disappointed in that pleasure, are still loth to relinquish the pleasing thought and live in expectation of that indulgenc at some future period—. I shall be...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 8 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
We have had
several Arrivals lately from France, without the pleasure of a Line from you, Mr.
Williams writes me however that you are well; we would rather have this information
under your own hand & Seal, but we content ourselves with supposing that it is
business that deprives... ...us the pleasure of hearing from you, as often as we could wish—...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 9 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
I did myself this pleasure yesterday; and late last Evening, the Washington packet
brought us your acceptable favor of the 27th. July, with several pleasing inclosures
from Benny, whom you had with you at Passy, a circumstance, he seems much to...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Sarah Bache, 9 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Your Friends the Vaughan Family are now under our roof, the pleasure we take in
entertaining every body that you love and that loves you, make us happy in their
Company, they are come to settle among us, and what little I have seen of them promise a
very agreable...
8From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Quincy, Sr., 11 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...Mind from that of the miserable Calumniators you mention! Having Plenty of Merit in himself, he was not jealous of the Appearance of Merit in others, but did Justice to their Characters with as much Pleasure as these People do Injury. It is now near two Years since your Friendship induc’d you to acquaint me with some of their Accusations. I guess’d easily at the Quarter from whence they...
9From Benjamin Franklin to [Madame Durey de Meinières], 12 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...certainly render my self on Sunday at the Pavilions of Chaillot, when I hope your Rhumatism will have left you, so as to permit your standing upright, that you may enjoy more Ease, and I more Pleasure in the greater Convenience of Embracing you. I hope also to find your good Husband well; for I respect and esteem you both, as all do who know you. Your English is better than you think...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price, 16 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
inform’d me of your being also well with Mrs Price lately at Brighthelmstone, which gave me great Pleasure: Please to present my affectionate Respects to that good Lady.—
a Man should go up with one of the large ones, might there not be some mechanical Contrivance to compress the Globe at pleasure and thusly incline it to descend, and let it expand when he inclines to rise again?—