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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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301 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 5 June … | 1747-06-05 | ALS : New-York Historical Society Mr. Harrison tells me you are still in New York, as deeply... |
302 | Whitefield, George | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from George Whitefield, 23 June … | 1747-06-23 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I thank You heartily for Your kind preamble to the... |
303 | Turner, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Turner, 6 July 1747 | 1747-07-06 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Herewith I send the Seal which you so long ago Spoke to me... |
304 | Logan, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 13 July 1747 | 1747-07-13 | Transcript: Harvard College Library (Sparks) I received this afternoon a Copy of the Proposals... |
305 | Franklin, Benjamin | Eliot, Jared | From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 16 July 1747 | 1747-07-16 | ALS : Yale University Library I receiv’d your Favour of the 4th Instant. I ought before this Time... |
306 | Logan, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 19 July 1747 | 1747-07-19 | Transcript: Harvard College Library (Sparks) I can scarce ever forgive thee for not shewing me,... |
307 | Rowse, G. | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from G. Row[se?], 21 July 1747 | 1747-07-21 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I’m informd of Some Letters from Virginia being directed for... |
308 | Green, Jonas | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonas Green, 25 July 1747 | 1747-07-25 | ALS : American Philosophical Society You will receive by this Mail two Packets from Barbadoes,... |
309 | Dowse, Joseph | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Dowse, 27 July 1747 | 1747-07-27 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Mrs. Steel who got here last week desires me to write you in... |
310 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 28 July 1747 | 1747-07-28 | Copy: American Academy of Arts and Sciences The inclosed is a Copy of my last, which went by the... |
311 | Library Company of Philadelphia | Penn, Thomas | Library Company to Thomas Penn, 29 July 1747 | 1747-07-29 | MS Minutes: Library Company of Philadelphia Franklin informed the Library Company Directors on... |
312 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 29 July 1747 | 1747-07-29 | MS not found; reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly , LXI (1888), 26. Your Favours of March 18 and... |
313 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 30 July … | 1747-07-30 | ALS : Yale University Library I receiv’d your Favour of the 26th. which I shall answer at large... |
314 | Cheston, Daniel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel Cheston, 2 August 1747 | 1747-08-02 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Favour of the 23d Ulto With Mr. Thos... |
315 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 3 August … | 1747-08-03 | ALS : New-York Historical Society Baxters [book] was gon so much out of my memory that I could... |
316 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 6 August … | 1747-08-06 | ALS : New-York Historical Society; draft: American Philosophical Society The Observations I sent... |
317 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 6 August 1747 | 1747-08-06 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am glad to hear that Mr. Whitefield is safe arriv’d, and... |
318 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 13 August … | 1747-08-13 | ALS : New-York Historical Society I am glad the electrical Observations please you. I leave them... |
319 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 14 August … | 1747-08-14 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I have lately written two long Letters to you on the Subject of... |
320 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 27 August … | 1747-08-27 | ALS : Yale University Library This just serves to enclose you a Letter from our Friend Bertram;... |
321 | Parker, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 7 September … | 1747-09-07 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Whiting came and [paid the] whole last Saturday Evening... |
322 | Parker, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 21 September … | 1747-09-21 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Last Week I accidently met Mr. DeLancey in the Streets: I... |
323 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 24 … | 1747-09-24 | ALS : New-York Historical Society I have one of your Histories come in among some Books sent me... |
324 | Franklin, Benjamin | Gambold, Hector | Receipt to Hector Gambold, 28 September 1747 | 1747-09-28 | ADS : Princeton University Library Receiv’d Sept. 28. 1747 of Mr. Gambold Twenty three Pounds Ten... |
325 | Cheston, Daniel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel Cheston, 28 September … | 1747-09-28 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am sorry to Acquaint you that with Assiduity Equal to the... |
326 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 28 … | 1747-09-28 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am obliged by your favour of the 24th and the Information... |
327 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 1 October … | 1747-10-01 | ALS : New-York Historical Society I send you herewith the History of the Five Nations. You will... |
328 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Abiah | From Benjamin Franklin to Abiah Franklin, 16 October … | 1747-10-16 | MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 8. This has been a busy day with your daughter... |
329 | Franklin, Benjamin | Plain Truth, 17 November 1747 | 1747-11-17 | Plain Truth: or, Serious Considerations On the Present State of the City of Philadelphia, and... | |
330 | Franklin, Benjamin | Form of Association, 24 November 1747 | 1747-11-24 | Broadside: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also printed (with “Remarks”) in The Pennsylvania... | |
331 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 27 … | 1747-11-27 | ALS : New-York Historical Society The violent Party Spirit that appears in all the Votes &c. of... |
332 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 28 November … | 1747-11-28 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Favour of June 11. per Capt. Tiffin, with... |
333 | Peters, Richard | Proprietaries | Richard Peters to the Proprietaries, 29 November 1747 | 1747-11-29 | Letterbook copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Abundance of Stories have been told by... |
334 | Logan, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 3 December 1747 | 1747-12-03 | Reprinted from Sparks, Works , VII , 24–7. I have expected to see thee here for several weeks,... |
335 | Franklin, Benjamin | Scheme of the First Philadelphia Lottery, 5 December … | 1747-12-05 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 12, 1747. The most urgent problem for the... | |
336 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 7 December 1747 | 1747-12-07 | MS not found; reprinted from Sparks, Works , VII , 28. I am heartily glad you approve of our... |
337 | Franklin, Benjamin | Address to the Associators, 7 December 1747 | 1747-12-07 | MS (fragment): American Philosophical Society The Associators—almost 600 in number—assembled with... | |
338 | Franklin, Benjamin | Proclamation for a General Fast, 9 December 1747 | 1747-12-09 | Broadside: Yale University Library The minutes of the Governor’s Council of December 8, 1747,... | |
339 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Manner of Drawing a Public Lottery, 22 December … | 1747-12-22 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , December 22, 1747. This explanation is an integral part of... | |
340 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1748 | ≈1748-01-01 | Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon; the... | |
341 | Franklin, Benjamin | Miscellaneous Lottery Papers, 1748 | ≈1748-01-01 | DS : nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, Yale University Library; no. 5, Edgar Fahs Smith Library, University of... | |
342 | Franklin, Benjamin | Notes on the Association, 1748 | ≈1748-01-01 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 5 to September 1, 1748. Between November 1747 and... | |
343 | Franklin, Benjamin | Articles of Agreement with David Hall, 1 January 1748 | 1748-01-01 | DS : Haverford College Library; also copy: Department of Records, Recorder of Deeds, Philadelphia... | |
344 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colors of the Associator Companies, 12 January 1748 and … | ≈1748-01-12 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 12 and April 16, 1748. The companies of... | |
345 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin and Hall: Accounts, 1748–1766 | ≈1748-01-21 | MS Account Book: American Philosophical Society This ledger, labeled “Franklin & Hall No. 1,”... | |
346 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colden, Cadwallader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 27 … | 1748-01-27 | AL : New-York Historical Society I received your Favour relating to the Cannon. We have... |
347 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 27 January 1748 | 1748-01-27 | MS not found; reprinted from Sparks, Works , VII , 31–3. I have not yet found the book, but... |
348 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 30 January 1748 | 1748-01-30 | MS not found; reprinted from Sparks, Works , VII , 33. I send you herewith the book, and enclosed... |
349 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 4 February … | 1748-02-04 | ALS : Huntington Library Enclos’d is a second Bill for £19 7 s. 1½ d. Sterling. The first I sent... |
350 | Franklin, Benjamin | Account of Money Received from David Hall, 1748–1757 | ≈1748-02-07 | MS Account Book: American Philosophical Society This little book contains in eight pages headed... |