1Joseph Breintnall to Peter Collinson, 7 November 1732 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : British Museum; also MS Minute Book: Library Company of Philadelphia Your Goodness in...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Davenport, [June 1730?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your kind and affectionate Letter of May the 15th, was...
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...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Hugh Meredith: Dissolution of Partnership, 14 July 1730 (Franklin Papers)
DS : American Philosophical Society Be it remembered , That Hugh Meredith and Benjamin Franklin...
5From a Reader to the Printer, 11 April 1734 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , April 11, 1734. Tho’ your News-paper is sometimes as empty...
6To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 1 May 1731 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also transcript: Harvard College Library...
7Sarah Read to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: Release, 10 April 1734 (Franklin Papers)
DS : American Philosophical Society; also copy: Office of Recorder of Deeds, Philadelphia This...
8Receipted Bill to the Proprietors, 25 June 1733 (Franklin Papers)
ADS : Friends Library, London 1. For printing 5 Sheets at 30 s. per Sheet £ 7 10 – 2. For Paper 5...
9Sarah Read to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: Bargain and Sale, 9 April 1734 (Franklin Papers)
DS : American Philosophical Society This document and the two which immediately follow record the...
10From 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...
11Louis Timothée to the German Inhabitants, 6 May 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Philadelphische Zeitung , May 6, 1732. An alle teutsche Einwohner der Provintz...
12From Benjamin Franklin to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 28 November 1734 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Abstract of the Proceedings … 1871 ,...
13From Benjamin Franklin to Library Company Subscribers, 25 March 1732 (Franklin Papers)
MS Minute Book: Library Company of Philadelphia The Directors, in Town, met with the Treasurer...
14From 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...
15Bill to Thomas Penn, 18 May 1734 (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society Honorable Thos. Penn Esq. Dr. 1734 May 18. For printing and...
16Directors 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...
17From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Price, 28 November 1734 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Abstract of the Proceedings … 1871 ,...
18Thomas Godfrey to the Printer of the Gazette, 15 August 1734 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 15, 1734. The Germans, an industrious and...
19Benjamin 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...
20From 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...
21The 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...
22The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , March 27, 1729. ——Quid non mortalia Pectora cogis Auri...
23Poor Richard, 1734 (Franklin Papers)
Poor Richard, 1734. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1734 … By Richard Saunders, Philom....
24Report of a Committee on By-Laws for St. John’s Lodge, [5 June 1732] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Abstract of the Proceedings … 1885 ,...
25Verses from Benjamin Franklin (the Elder), 7 July 1710 (Franklin Papers)
MS Commonplace Book of Benjamin Franklin (the Elder): American Antiquarian Society Benjamin...
26The 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...
27The 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...
28Query 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...
29Celia Single, 24 July 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , July 24, 1732; also draft: Historical Society of...
30Verses from Benjamin Franklin (the Elder), 1713 (Franklin Papers)
MS Commonplace Book of Benjamin Franklin (the Elder): American Antiquarian Society To My Name...
31The Printer to the Reader, 23 October 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 23, 1729. The Publishers of this Paper meeting with...
32Admission 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...
33Anti-Casuist: A Case of Conscience, [3 July 1732] (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Anti Casuist says: I allow the Heighnousness of the...
34The 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...
35Silence 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...
36From 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...
37Agreement 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...
38Silence Dogood, No. 2, 16 April 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , April 16, 1722. Histories of Lives are seldom entertaining,...
39Silence Dogood, No. 6, 11 June 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , June 11, 1722. Quem Dies videt veniens Superbum, Hunc Dies...
40Printer’s Errors, 13 March 1730 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , March 13, 1729/30. Printerum est errare. As your last Paper...
41A Sea Captain’s Letter, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Franklin drafted private letters, Gazette essays, and...
42Miscellaneous Observations, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania The great Secret of succeeding in Conversation, is, To...
43Silence 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...
44On 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...
45Proposals 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....
46Poor Richard, 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Poor Richard, 1733. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1733, … By Richard Saunders, Philom....
47Silence Dogood, No. 10, 13 August 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , August 13, 1722. Optimè societas hominum servabitur. Cic....
48Silence Dogood, No. 14, 8 October 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , October 8, 1722. Earum causarum quantum quaeque valeat,...
49A 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...
50Observations on Reading History, 9 May 1731 (Franklin Papers)
MS Autobiography: Huntington Library That the great Affairs of the World, the Wars, Revolutions,...