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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Franklin, Benjamin | I Sing My Plain Country Joan, 1742 | ≈1742-01-01 | MS : American Philosophical Society There can be little doubt that Franklin composed these verses... | |
| 202 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1742 | ≈1742-01-06 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 6 to December 30, 1742. [ Advertisement ] Eben aus... | |
| 203 | Franklin, Benjamin | Articles of Agreement with James Parker, 20 February … | 1742-02-20 | ADS : American Philosophical Society Articles of Agreement indented made the twentieth Day of... | |
| 204 | Library Company of Philadelphia | Library Company: Acceptance of the Charter, 3 May 1742 | 1742-05-03 | DS : Haverford College Library The increasing property of the Library Company suggested that the... | |
| 205 | Directors of Library Company | Directors of Library Company to Proprietors and Reply … | ≈1742-07-01 | ADS (address) and draft (reply): Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also MS Minute Book... | |
| 206 | Spicer, Jacob | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jacob Spicer, 20 September … | 1742-09-20 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The difficulty I have Labour’d under Some time in the... |
| 207 | Franklin, Benjamin | Card to the Public, 23 September 1742 | 1742-09-23 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , September 23, 1742. It being asserted in a printed Paper,... | |
| 208 | Franklin, Benjamin | Receipt Book, 1742–64 | ≈1742-12-22 | MS Record Book: American Philosophical Society As a man of affairs who frequently made large cash... | |
| 209 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1743 | ≈1743-01-01 | Poor Richard, 1743. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1743 ,... By Richard Saunders, Philom.... | |
| 210 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1743 | ≈1743-01-04 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 4 to December 29, 1743. On Wednesday the 5th... | |
| 211 | Franklin, Benjamin | Articles of the Union Fire Company, 31 January 1743 | 1743-01-31 | MS Minute Book, Union Fire Company: Library Company of Philadelphia The Union Fire Company’s... | |
| 212 | Franklin, Benjamin | Distribution of the Mail, April 1743 | ≈1743-04-01 | Draft: American Philosophical Society This document obviously belongs to the period of Franklin’s... | |
| 213 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 14 May 1743 | 1743-05-14 | Broadside: Yale University Library A proposal Franklin drafted in 1743 to found an academy in... | |
| 214 | Franklin, Benjamin | [Shavers and Trimmers; and To the Publick, 23 and 30 … | ≈1743-06-23 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , June 23 and 30, 1743. The first of these pieces, to which... | |
| 215 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 10 July 1743 | 1743-07-10 | ALS : Columbia University Library Mr. Read has communicated to me part of a Letter from you,... |
| 216 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 28 July 1743 | 1743-07-28 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I took your Admonition very kindly, and was far from being... |
| 217 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, [October … | ≈1743-10-01 | Draft: New-York Historical Society Ever since I had the Pleasure of a Conversation with you tho... |
| 218 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 4 … | 1743-11-04 | ALS : New-York Historical Society; also transcript: Library of Congress I received the Favour of... |
| 219 | Annand, Alexander | Franklin, Benjamin | Bill from Alexander Annand, [December 1743] | ≈1743-12-01 | AD : American Philosophical Society Mr Benjamin Franklin to Alexr Annand Dr To James and William... |
| 220 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward and Jane Mecom … | ≈1744-01-01 | MS not found; reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of the Familiar Letters and... |
| 221 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1744 | ≈1744-01-01 | Poor Richard, 1744. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1744 ,... By Richard Saunders, Philom.... | |
| 222 | Franklin, Benjamin | Verses from A Pocket Almanack, 1744 | ≈1744-01-01 | Printed in A Pocket Almanack For the Year 1744. Fitted to the Use of Pennsylvania, and the... | |
| 223 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1744 | ≈1744-01-03 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 3 to December 25, 1744. Wednesday last a Fire broke... | |
| 224 | Logan, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 26 February 1744 | 1744-02-26 | Transcript: Harvard College Library (Sparks); another transcript: American Philosophical Society... |
| 225 | Franklin, Benjamin | Preface to Logan’s Cato Major, 29 February 1744 | 1744-02-29 | M.T. Cicero’s Cato Major, or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes. Philadelphia:... | |
| 226 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 5 April … | 1744-04-05 | ALS : New-York Historical Society; also transcript: Library of Congress Happening to be in this... |
| 227 | Franklin, Benjamin | Benger, Elliott | Benjamin Franklin and Robert Grace to Elliott Benger … | 1744-04-25 | Copy: Land Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Know all Men by... |
| 228 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 4 July 1744 | 1744-07-04 | ALS : Yale University Library; also duplicate: University of Pennsylvania Library I receiv’d your... |
| 229 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 31 July 1744 | 1744-07-31 | ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library The above is a Copy of my last (via Corke). This... |
| 230 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Josiah | From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah and Abiah Franklin, 6 … | 1744-09-06 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I apprehend I am too busy in prescribing, and meddling in... |
| 231 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 13 … | 1744-09-13 | ALS : Yale University Library Dr. Mitchel, a Gentleman from Virginia, came to Town this Morning... |
| 232 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 17 … | 1744-09-17 | Draft: Yale University Library I have Yours of the 13th and am glad to find by it that you have... |
| 233 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 18 September … | 1744-09-18 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you per Capt. Evans, and enclos’d you Bills for... |
| 234 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 25 … | 1744-10-25 | ALS : New-York Historical Society I communicated your Piece on Fluxions to Mr. Logan, and being... |
| 235 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 2 November … | 1744-11-02 | ALS : Chicago Historical Society I have wrote to you by several Opportunities to acknowledge the... |
| 236 | Franklin, Benjamin | An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian … | 1744-11-15 | An Account Of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places: ... Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by... | |
| 237 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, December … | ≈1744-12-01 | Draft: New-York Historical Society The season of the year advancing in which our Correspondence... |
| 238 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1745 | ≈1745-01-01 | Poor Richard, 1745. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1745 , … By Richard Saunders, Philom.... | |
| 239 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Antediluvians Were All Very Sober, 1745 | ≈1745-01-01 | Draft: American Philosophical Society This MS in BF ’s autograph was dated “ circa 1745” in I.... | |
| 240 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1745 | ≈1745-01-01 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 1 to December 31, 1745. [ Advertisement ] Lost on... | |
| 241 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shippen, Edward | Presentment of the Philadelphia Grand Jury, 3 January … | 1745-01-03 | AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania To the Worshipful the Mayor, the Recorder and the rest of... |
| 242 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 12 February … | 1745-02-12 | MS not found; reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly , LXI (1888), 22–3. I received your Favour per... |
| 243 | Franklin, Benjamin | Notes on Assembly Debates, 26–28 February 1745 | ≈1745-02-26 | MS : American Philosophical Society These fragments are part of an account Franklin wrote of... | |
| 244 | Mitchell, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Mitchell, [March 1745?] | ≈1745-03-01 | MS not found; reprinted from The American Medical and Philosophical Register; or Annals of... |
| 245 | Franklin, Benjamin | Report of Viewers of a Road in the Northern Liberties … | ≈1745-04-01 | MS Appearance Docket, 1740–1751, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia... | |
| 246 | Franklin, Benjamin | Agreement about the Road, [April 1745] | ≈1745-04-01 | DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Whereas we the Subscribers have by a Written Agreement... | |
| 247 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 14 April … | 1745-04-14 | Duplicate: Rosenbach Foundation I wrote to you lately via New York, and sent a Copy via Maryland,... |
| 248 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 14 April … | 1745-04-14 | ALS : Rosenbach Foundation The above is a Copy of mine per Capt. Martyn. I have only to desire... |
| 249 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, [May 1745?] | ≈1745-05-01 | MS not found; reprinted from extract in Sparks, Works , VII , 16–17. Our people are extremely... |
| 250 | Franklin, Benjamin | Old Mistresses Apologue, 25 June 1745 | 1745-06-25 | AL : The Rosenbach Foundation; also copy and transcript: Library of Congress In both manuscript... |