45101From Benjamin Franklin to O[liver] N[eave, before 1769] (Franklin Papers)
Printed from Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity … (4th edition,...
45102From Benjamin Franklin to John Witherspoon, 19 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress I hope you will have the Pleasure of receiving, with this, your...
45103From Benjamin Franklin to John Bartram, 9 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from William Darlington, ed., Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall...
45104Testimony in a Prize Case, [14 October 1776] (Franklin Papers)
D : National Archives Seth Jenkins, to whose character Franklin was testifying, was a Nantucket...
45105From Benjamin Franklin to John Holker, 19 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Immediately on the Receipt of your Letter, I wrote to the Owner of the...
45106From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 27 October 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Princeton University Library Thro’ Storms and Floods I arrived here on Saturday night,...
45107From Benjamin Franklin to Robert R. Livingston, 24[–25] December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS and transcript: National Archives Sundry Circumstances occurring since mine of the 5th & 14th....
45108From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 14 June 1762 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly , LXI (1888), 34. Mr. Franklin’s Compliments to...
45109From Benjamin Franklin to John Walter, 17 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from John Walter, An Address to the Public, by J. Walter, Shewing the Great Improvement...
45110From Benjamin Franklin to James Alexander, 15 August 1745 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I return you herewith your Draughts, with a Copy of one of...
45111From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 23 March 1755 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This only serves to cover a Bill of Exchange for Twenty...
45112Defense of American Placeholders, 17 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser , January 17, 1769 In his two roles of colonial...
45113Extract from Franklin’s Journal, 13 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress “A Man came to tell me he has invented a Machine, which would go of...
45114From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Landais, 2 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Your other Swedish Prize is retaken and carried into England, as we...
45115From Benjamin Franklin to Vicq d’Azyr, 24 May 1784 (Franklin Papers)
L : Yale University Library M. Franklin a l’honneur de faire mille Complimens à Monsieur...
45116From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 3 October 1775: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces...
45117From Benjamin Franklin to Giuseppe Doria Pamphili, 18 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
L : Archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide Mr. Franklin assure de son Respect son...
45118Franklin’s Memorandum about the Walpole Company, [14 July 1778] (Franklin Papers)
ADS : New York Public Library This memorandum is a key document in the story of Franklin’s...
45119From Benjamin Franklin to [La Rochefoucauld], 17 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Bibliothèque Municipale de Besançon I return the Carolina Constitution which I have...
45120From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 3 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Mrs. Henry Sage, Albany, New York (1958); copy: Library of Congress I received your kind...
45121From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Priestley, 7 June 1782 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your kind Letter of the 7th of April, also...
45122From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 29 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives I have just receiv’d yours of the...
45123From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 16 May 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (two letters): American Philosophical Society I am unluckily so much engag’d that I cannot...
45124From Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyne, 9 August 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society This well known letter was apparently first published...
45125From Benjamin Franklin to Le Baron, 21 November 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: American Philosophical Society I write this Line per Post just to acqt you that your Letter...
45126From Benjamin Franklin to David Williams, 21 February 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library This letter and Franklin’s brief note below, May 9, are to the best...
45127Silence Dogood, No. 2, 16 April 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , April 16, 1722. Histories of Lives are seldom entertaining,...
45128Analysis of Loyalists, [1783?] (Franklin Papers)
D : Library of Congress Two hundred & eighty eight persons called Loyalists, & specified by Name...
45129From Benjamin Franklin to James Woodmason, [10 January 1780] (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society I have lately receiv’d yours, without Date,...
45130From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Laurens, 17 April 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library I have received your Favours of March 28. and April 7.— I am glad...
45131From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 19 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Haverford College Library; AL (draft) and partial copy: Library of Congress; transcript:...
45132From Benjamin Franklin to Ralph Izard, 4 April 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy and two transcripts: National Archives; transcript: South Carolina Historical Society If I...
45133From Benjamin Franklin to Lafayette, 22 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress I admire much the Activity...
45134From Benjamin Franklin to Maurice-Augustin Montgolfier, 4 February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress J’ai reçu, Monsieur, la Lettre que vous m’avez adressée en dernier...
45135From Benjamin Franklin to Charles James Fox, 10 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS and two copies: Public Record Office; press copy of LS , and copy: Library of Congress;...
45136From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Dana, 7 April 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society; AL (draft); Library of Congress; copies: Library of...
45137From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 29 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received duly yours of the 19 inst. You have my free Consent to...
45138Explanatory Remarks on the Assembly’s Resolves, [29 March 1764] (Franklin Papers)
Broadside: Library Company of Philadelphia On March 30, 1764, the day after the Pennsylvania...
45139Silence Dogood, No. 6, 11 June 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , June 11, 1722. Quem Dies videt veniens Superbum, Hunc Dies...
45140From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 5 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: Library of Congress The Chevalier de La Luzerne sat...
45141From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 4 July 1749 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I sent word today to N. Holland, that you desired to see...
45142From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 29 November 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (copy): British Museum This letter, one of Franklin’s major statements on colonial affairs,...
45143From Benjamin Franklin to Conrad Weiser, Jonas Seely, and James Read, 30 December 1755 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Grand Lodge F. and A.M. of Pennsylvania We are just on the Point of setting out for...
45144From Benjamin Franklin to William Hodgson, 9 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Privately owned Your Favour of the 25th past, is but just come to hand. I think with you,...
45145From Benjamin Franklin to a French Friend, [June 1772]: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract: printed in Pierre-Joseph-André Roubaud, Histoire générale de l’Asie, de l’Afrique et de...
45146From Benjamin Franklin to David Hall, 9 April 1761 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Boston Public Library I receiv’d yours of Feb. 9. with the Bill for £200 for which I thank...
45147From Benjamin Franklin to Mallet, 7 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy and L (draft): Library of Congress J’ai reçu, Monsieur, Votre Lettre du 2. de ce mois. Je...
45148From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 24 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New-York Historical Society Messieurs Galatin & De Serres, two young Gentlemen of Geneva,...
45149From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Sim Lee, 11 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Maryland State Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received your Excellency’s Letter of...
45150From Benjamin Franklin to Ingenhousz, 2 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Mrs. James A. de Rothschild, England (1962) Inclos’d I send you a Copy of a Letter to Sir...