1Joseph Breintnall to Peter Collinson, 7 November 1732 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : British Museum; also MS Minute Book: Library Company of Philadelphia Your Goodness in...
2The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , March 27, 1729. ——Quid non mortalia Pectora cogis Auri...
3Joseph Breintnall to Directors of Library Company, 8 November 1731 (Franklin Papers)
MS Minute Book: Library Company of Philadelphia The Library Company of Philadelphia was...
4[Public Men, 10 September 1730] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , September 10, 1730. Although the paragraph in the Gazette...
5Benjamin and Deborah Franklin and John and Frances Croker to Sarah Read: Lease, 11 April 1734 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Morris Duane, Philadelphia, on deposit in Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1957) This...
6Directors of Library Company to Thomas Penn and Reply, 16 May 1733 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Friends Library, London; also MS Minute Book, Library Company of Philadelphia; printed in...
7Agreement between Louis Timothée and Directors of Library Company, 14 November 1732 (Franklin Papers)
DS : New York Public Library Memorandum of Agreement indented and made the fourteenth Day of...
8Agreement between Directors of Library Company and William Parsons, 14 March 1734 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Memorandum of Agreement indented [and] made the...
9Admission of John Mifflin to Library Company, 27 August 1734 (Franklin Papers)
ADS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Such of the Directors of the Library Company as approve...
10Agreement of Directors of Library Company, 28 May 1733 (Franklin Papers)
ADS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania We the Subscribers hereto, Directors of the Library...
11The Busy-Body, No. 2, 11 February 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 11, 1728/9. All Fools have still an Itching to...
12Poor Richard, 1734 (Franklin Papers)
Poor Richard, 1734. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1734 … By Richard Saunders, Philom....
13The Busy-Body, No. 4, 25 February 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 25, 1728/9. Nequid nimis. In my first Paper I...
14The Printer to the Reader, 2 October 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 2, 1729. The attacks of the Busy-Body, Keimer’s...
15Bill to Thomas Penn, 18 May 1734 (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society Honorable Thos. Penn Esq. Dr. 1734 May 18. For printing and...
16Query to the Casuist: A Case of Conscience, 26 June 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , June 26, 1732; also draft: Historical Society of...
17Celia Single, 24 July 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July 24, 1732; also draft: Historical Society of...
18The Printer to the Reader, 23 October 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 23, 1729. The Publishers of this Paper meeting with...
19Anti-Casuist: A Case of Conscience, [3 July 1732] (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Anti Casuist says: I allow the Heighnousness of the...
20The Taking of Teach the Pirate, 1719 (Franklin Papers)
Not found The second ballad which Franklin wrote and hawked through the streets of Boston was “a...
21Silence Dogood, No. 4, 14 May 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , May 14, 1722. An sum etiam nunc vel Graecè loqui vel Latinè...
22From the Casuist: The Case of the Trespassing Horse, 16 December 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 16, 1729. I send you here an Answer to a Query in...
23From Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Davenport, [June 1730?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your kind and affectionate Letter of May the 15th, was...
24From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Price, 28 November 1734 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Abstract of the Proceedings … 1871 ,...
25Silence Dogood, No. 2, 16 April 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , April 16, 1722. Histories of Lives are seldom entertaining,...
26Silence Dogood, No. 6, 11 June 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , June 11, 1722. Quem Dies videt veniens Superbum, Hunc Dies...
27Printer’s Errors, 13 March 1730 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , March 13, 1729/30. Printerum est errare. As your last Paper...
28A Sea Captain’s Letter, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Franklin drafted private letters, Gazette essays, and...
29Miscellaneous Observations, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania The great Secret of succeeding in Conversation, is, To...
30Silence Dogood, No. 8, 9 July 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , July 9, 1722. On June 11 the Courant had insinuated that the...
31On Governor Belcher’s Speech, 24 September 1730 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , September 24, 1730. In our last we gave our Readers the...
32Proposals and Queries to be Asked the Junto, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania That P S and A N be immediately invited into the Junto....
33Poor Richard, 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Poor Richard, 1733. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1733, … By Richard Saunders, Philom....
34Silence Dogood, No. 10, 13 August 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , August 13, 1722. Optimè societas hominum servabitur. Cic....
35Silence Dogood, No. 14, 8 October 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , October 8, 1722. Earum causarum quantum quaeque valeat,...
36A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, 22 October 1730 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 22, 1730. This hoax is included here on the...
37Observations on Reading History, 9 May 1731 (Franklin Papers)
MS Autobiography: Huntington Library That the great Affairs of the World, the Wars, Revolutions,...
38Silence Dogood, No. 12, 10 September 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , September 10, 1722. Quod est in cordi sobrii, est in ore...
39Advertisement of Godfrey’s Almanacs, 19 January 1731 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 19, 1730/1. Godfrey’s Almanacks for the Year 1731....
40From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 19 June 1731 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 3–5. Yours of May 26, I received with the...
41Remarks on a South Carolina Currency Scheme, 31 May 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , May 31, 1733. As there are frequently Things published in...
42[Other Courant Essays Possibly by Franklin, 1723] (Franklin Papers)
Franklin’s contributions to the New-England Courant were not limited to the fourteen letters of...
43On Ill-Natured Speaking, 12 July 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July 12, 1733; also draft: Historical Society of...
44A Scolding Wife, 5 July 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July 5, 1733. In the copy of this issue of the Gazette in...
45From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Hans Sloane, 2 June 1725 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : British Museum Having lately been in the Nothern Parts of America, I have brought from...
46From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Franklin, 6 January 1727 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 3. I am highly pleased with the account captain...
47On Literary Style, 2 August 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 2, 1733; also draft: Historical Society of...
48Miscellaneous Business Memoranda, 1731 (Franklin Papers)
MSS : American Philosophical Society Volume 66 of the Franklin Papers in the American...
49Query to the Casuist: The Case of the Missing Horse, 18 January 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 18, 1731/2. In one of your Papers about two Years...
50Journal of a Voyage, 1726 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from WTF, Memoirs , 4to edit., I , Appendix, i-xix; also transcript:...