Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 27 August 1747

To Cadwallader Colden

ALS: Yale University Library

Philada. Augt. 27. 1747

Sir

This just serves to enclose you a Letter from our Friend Bertram;7 and to request you would deliver my Papers on Electricity to the Bearer Mr. Darling.8 I have not Time to add, but that I am, with great Respect, Sir, Your most humble Servant

B Franklin

P.S. I think you wrote me Word you had lent Watson’s Book on Electricity9 which I sent you last Winter to Dr. Bard.1 Please to direct Mr. Darling to Dr. Bard’s for it, if he has not return’d it to you.

Addressed: To  The honble. Cadwalr Colden Esqr  New York  per favr of Mr Darling

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. John Bartram’s letter to Colden, Aug. 16. Colden Paps., III, 419–20.

8. On Thomas Darling of New Haven, see above, p. 108 n.

9. William Watson, Experiments and Observations Tending to illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity (London, 1746), or his Sequel to the Experiments and Observations (London, 1746).

1. On John Bard, see above, p. 49 n.

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 27 August 1747,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0082. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 3, January 1, 1745, through June 30, 1750, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, p. 172.]

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