45141From 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...
45142From 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...
45143From Benjamin Franklin to Elisha Hart, 29 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours, and I do by this Post request M. Schweighauser to...
45144From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 7 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Enclosed is the passport for the Saltpetre. I found no Difficulty is...
45145Poor Richard, 1741 (Franklin Papers)
Poor Richard, 1741. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1741 ,... By Richard Saunders, Philom....
45146From Benjamin Franklin to John Harris, 12 August 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your Letters of the 7th. Instant. I wish it was in my Power...
45147From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 22 June 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society However glad I am of the Occasion, I forbore...
45148Reply to “A Portugal Merchant,” [end of April 1768] (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Philosophical Society Your Paper of April 28. contains a Letter from Lisbon ,...
45149From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 1753 (Franklin Papers)
Transcript: Historical Society of Pennsylvania With regard to the Germans, I think Methods of...
45150From Benjamin Franklin to George Washington, 21 June 1776 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): New York Public Library I am much obliged by your kind Care of my unfortunate Letter,...
45151“A Tale”, [December 1778?] (Franklin Papers)
Passy, printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1779? Il y avoit un Officier, homme de bien, appelé...
45152From Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon, 31 March 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society Voici, ma trés cher Amie, une de mes Plaisanteries...
45153From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Oswald, 14 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : William L. Clements Library; copies: Library of Congress (two), Massachusetts Historical...
45154Teague’s Advertisement, 26 February 1741 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , February 26, 1741; also draft: American Philosophical...
45155From Benjamin Franklin to [Lebègue de Presle], 4 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Facsimile: Yale University Library; copy: Library of Congress I am much oblig’d by your...
45156From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Lee, 11 February 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Justin G. Turner, Los Angeles (1959) The Bearer Monsr. Arundel is directed by the Congress...
45157From Benjamin Franklin to James Alexander, 1753 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (London, 1769), pp....
45158Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 31 March 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour of acquainting your Excellency, that an Express from Congress is at last...
45159To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 7 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
Dr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Adams, and sends such of his Trunks as can be got...
45160Franklin’s “Hints” or Terms for a Durable Union, [between 4 and 6 December 1774] (Franklin Papers)
AD and copy: Library of Congress On the evening of December 4, in response to Barclay’s and...
45161Proposed Resolutions of Thanks, [May 1775, June 1775, or early July 1775] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society The first Continental Congress had sent to London, along with...
45162From Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, 23 October 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Philosophical Society I beg Leave to return your Excellency my sincerest and most...
45163From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 15 January 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Reproduced in Joseph M. Maddalena, Profiles in History Auction Catalogue no. 15 (Beverly...
45164Of Lightning, and the Method (Now Used in America) of Securing Buildings and Persons from Its Mischievous Effects … (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; printed in Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in...
45165From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, [November 1760?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress It is, as you observed in our late Conversation, a very general...
45166From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Coffyn, 23 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 10th. I have heard nothing...
45167From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 1 June 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): National Archives I have the Pleasure of informing you that it is propos’d to give...
45168From Benjamin Franklin to John Torris, 19 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 12th. Instant. I have all along expected the...
45169From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 30 June 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from George T. Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His...
45170From Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon, [10 October? 1778] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Comme il sera necessaire, ma chere Amie, que je pars un jour...