1From Benjamin Franklin to James Wright, 26 June 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Transcript: John L.W. Mifflin, Middlebush, N.J. (1955) I am glad to learn that the Flour is mostly if not all got up to Conegocheeg, and that you have so good a Prospect of getting Waggons to forward it to Wills’s Creek. The Governor has sent down the Bill and proposes to pass it with about 30 Amendments, of which one is that the Commissioners named in the Act to dispose of the £5000 for...
2From Benjamin Franklin to James Wright, 3 July 1755 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library Before this reaches you, you will have heard that the House is adjourn’d. A Bill to strike £10,000 Exchange Money is pass’d, and nothing else done. I spoke several Times to the Speaker and Committee, about sending you some Money by the Return of the Members; but Mr. M’Conaughy slipt away without Leave, and so without their Knowledge; and afterwards the Business...
3From Benjamin Franklin to James Wright, 9 July 1759 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Yale University Library; transcript: John L. W. Mifflin, Middlebush, N.J. (1955) By the Cornelia Capt. Smith I sent you in a Box to Mrs. Franklin Norden’s Egypt. cost £4: 4: 0 Maintenon’s Letters and a Book of Husbandry 0: 6: 0 A Thermometer 1: 11: 6 £6: 1: 6 which I hope are got safe to hand. There has been at my House one Mary James
4From Benjamin Franklin to James Wright, 9 July 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: William L. Clements Library When Mr. Hunter came to Town, I conferr’d with him on the Subject of Supporting a regular constant Post between Charles Town in South Carolina and Williamsburgh in Virginia, agreeable to what Pass’d when I had the Pleasure of Meeting you at the General Post Office. He was Concerned to hear, that by the Death of Mr. Fareis who we had appointed to Carry on that...