36431To Benjamin Franklin from Lord Dartmouth to Franklin, William Bollan, and Arthur Lee, 23 December 1774: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office <St. James’s Square, Friday, December 23, 1774: A note in the third person asking them to meet him at his house at ten the following morning. > To learn how the King had received the petition from the Continental Congress; see the following document.
36432Answers to Franklin’s “Hints,” [before 4 February 1775] (Franklin Papers)
Copy (?) and copy: Library of Congress Barclay and Fothergill, after their long conference with Franklin on December 6, carried copies of his “Hints” to Lord Hyde and Lord Dartmouth respectively. For almost two months no word came from Whitehall, and the rejection of Chatham’s conciliatory plan by the House of Lords on February 1 persuaded Franklin that he would hear no more of negotiation. He...
36433To Benjamin Franklin from Lord Dartmouth, 2 June 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Public Record Office Since the previous summer the grievances of Massachusetts had been working their way toward the throne. The petitions from the House of Representatives in July, 1772, and March, 1773, had arraigned the Townshend Acts and their implementation as violating the colony’s charter, and had demanded a return to the old system whereby the General Court controlled...
36434To Benjamin Franklin from Lord Dartmouth, 25 August 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have received your Letter of the 21st. Instant, together with an Address of the House of Representatives of the Massachusets Bay, which I shall not fail to lay before the King, the next time I shall have the Honor of being admitted into his presence. I cannot help expressing to you the pleasure it gives me to hear that a sincere disposition prevails in the People of...
36435To Benjamin Franklin from Erasmus Darwin, 24 January 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have inclosed a medico-philosophical Paper which I should take it as a Favour if you will communicate to the royal Society, if you think it worthy a Place in their Volum, otherwise must desire you to return it to the Writer. I have another very curious Paper containing Experiments on the Colours seen in the closed Eye after having gazed some Time on...
36436To Benjamin Franklin from Erasmus Darwin, 18 July 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I was unfortunate in not being able to go to Birmingham, till a Day after you left it. The apparatus you constructed with the Bladder and Funnel I took into my Pond the next Day, whilst I was bathing, and fill’d the Bladder well with unmix’d Air, that rose from the muddy Bottom, and tying it up, brought it Home, and then pricking the Bladder with a Pin, I...
36437André Daschkoff to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
La lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire en date du 14 du mois passé m’est parvenue au milieu d’une maladie Sérieuse dont je ne Suis pas encore rétabli. Je saisis le premier moment de ma convalescence pour vous présenter Monsieur mes très humbles remercimens du désir obligeant que vous daignés me marquer, de me voir à Monticello . Ayant appris à mon arrivée que c’étoit le lieu de...
36438André Daschkoff to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Arrivé dans le pays par ordre de Sa Majesté l’Empereur de toutes les Russies en Conséquence de ma nomination de chargé d’Affaires près les Etats Unis et de Consul Général à Philadelphie , j’ai l’honneur de vous envoyer Monsieur deux lettres ci jointes à votre adresse Confiées à mes Soins. Je Saisis avec empressement cette occasion de vous présenter mes hommages réspéctueux du moment de mon...
36439Alfred H. Dashiell to Thomas Jefferson, September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me for one moment to obtrude myself on y r notice.—Being about to establish an Academy near Balt o I am anxious to secure all means of success. As you were pleased to express a favourable opinion of the School near N London , & did me the honour of placing y r grandson under my care, could you send me a line w h I might give to the publick as a recommendation?.— Excuse, Sir, the liberty...
36440Alfred H. Dashiell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume to intrude myself upon your notice, which your generosity will forgive: & if it is to ask a favour, nothing but the greatest confidence in that benevolence which you extend towards so many, & which I myself have formerly experienced, could have given me the courage, or furnished the inducement. Since my removal from New London to M d , I have been endeavouring to establish a...