51From Benjamin Franklin to the Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 12 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : The Rosenbach Foundation I received your Letters of Jan. 13. and 20. and communicated them to Mr. Jackson. The Petition, praying a Repeal of the Act of Parliament prohibiting the Paper Money of the Colonies being a lawful Tender, was immediately presented according to your Directions, and referred to a Committee. We have for a long time been extreamly busy with our general American...
52To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Wharton, 30 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Bearer hereof is Dr. Jonathan Potts son of your Friend John Potts Esqr. He pays Europe a Visit for an Improvement in the Duties of his Profession. He has requested me to mention his Name to you; Which I am persuaded, is all, that is Necessary, to introduce Him to Gentlemen of the first Character in the Physical Class. I did myself the Pleasure to call...
53From Benjamin Franklin to Rudolph Erich Raspe, 9 September 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Landesbibliothek, Kassel I received your obliging Favour of Augt. 28. with the Paper enclos’d for the Monthly Review, which I shall communicate to the Managers of that Work, and imagine I shall prevail with them to do you better Justice. I am oblig’d to you for the Trouble you took in the Affair of my little Bill. As the other Bankers beside the Jew, have satisfy’d you that it was fully...
54Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons, 13 February 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Text of the Examination printed in The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, before an August Assembly, relating to the Repeal of the Stamp Act, &c. [Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1766]; Franklin’s Notes, ad: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Nathaniel Ryder’s Notes, transcription of shorthand ms : Harrowby Manuscript Trust, The Earl of Harrowby, Sandon Hall, Stafford. During the...
55To Benjamin Franklin from [Andrew] Cheap and from Mr. and Mrs. [Israel] Wilkes, 23 December 1766 (Franklin Papers)
AL (two): American Philosophical Society These two invitations are printed together because they are written on the same sheet of paper, though in different hands, and clearly relate to each other. They were certainly written on the same day. Though December 23 fell on a Thursday in 1760 as well as in 1766, this paper and its contents are assigned to the latter year because the people...
56To Benjamin Franklin from [Joseph] Johnson, 4 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society J. Johnson’s compliments to Dr. Francklin and sends those MSS for his inspection by order of Dr. Priestley who will esteem himself much oblig’d to the Dr. for looking over them as soon as possible. Addressed: To Dr. Francklin Joseph Johnson (1738–1809), bookseller and printer and in his later years deemed “the father of the book trade,” was one of the...
57From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 8 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : William L. Clements Library I received your kind Letter of Sept. the 22d. and from another Friend a Copy of that lying Essay in which I am represented as the Author of the Stamp Act, and you as concern’d in it. The Answer you mention is not yet come to hand. Your Consolation, my Friend, and mine, under these Abuses, must be, that we do not deserve them . But what can console the Writers...
58To Benjamin Franklin from [Alexander] Small, 11 June 1766 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Small presents his Complements to Dr. Franklin, is glad Sir John Pringle is to be happy in so agreable a Fellow Traveller, and begs leave to trouble him with the inclosed Letter and Bill, in case they take Hague in their way. If not the Dr. may burn them. Mr. Johnson is a very polite Man, and will, I dare say, be very ready to do Sir John and Dr....
59To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Galloway, 16 June 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you, by Captains Falkner and Egdon last Week, Since which I have received your Favor of the 12th. of April. I now do, what I ought to have done long before, Sincerely Thank you, for the frequent Intelligences which I have received on publick Affairs. And altho a Continuance of that Favor will ever be very grateful to me, yet I am not so...
60From Benjamin Franklin to [Joseph Galloway], 12 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; extract printed in Pennsylvania Gazette , June 19, 1766 Our Friends here are in Pain, lest the Condescension of Parliament, in repealing the Stamp-Act, will encourage the Americans to farther Excesses; and our Enemies, who have predicted it, hope to see their Prophecies fulfilled, that they may disgrace the present Ministry; but I hope we shall behave prudently, and disappoint...