45951From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 30 May 1757 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 18–20. I have before me yours of the 9th and...
45952From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 12 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 5th. Instant. I approve of the Orders you...
45953From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 20 November 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society By this Ship, (Capt. Scot, ) Mrs. Stevenson sends you half a...
45954From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 1754 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Send 50 Reams largest Demi to Mr. Daniel, Printer at Jamaica....
45955From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 17 August 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you some time since to go by Capt. Falconer, but...
45956From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 7 May 1774 (Franklin Papers)
AL (fragment): American Philosophical Society It is now a very long time indeed since I have had...
45957From Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon, 10 December 1780 (Franklin Papers)
AL and AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Je me rendrai chez vous, ma chere fille, demain...
45958[To Lord Kames, 11 April 1767] (Franklin Papers)
One of two signed versions of a long letter from Franklin to Lord Kames is dated April 11, 1767,...
45959From Benjamin Franklin to ——— Rinquin: Three Letters, 4 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
(I), (II) and (III) Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of...
45960From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 29 August 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library Understanding since I came hither that 4 Waggon Loads of...
45961From Benjamin Franklin to William Greene, 8 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress If M. le Prince de Broglie in passing thro’ your State should happen to...
45962From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Babcock, 26 February 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library It is a long time since I have had the Pleasure of a Line from you;...
45963From Benjamin Franklin to Gourlade & Moylan, 14 February 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Two copies: Library of Congress I received the Letter you honoured me with of the Instant,...
45964From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Laurens, 25 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : South Carolina Historical Society; copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives...
45965From Benjamin Franklin to Durival, 24 July 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England Being much oppress’d by the Heat of this Weather, I...
45966Preface to Joseph Galloway’s Speech, [11 August 1764] (Franklin Papers)
The Speech of Joseph Galloway, Esq; One of the Members for Philadelphia County; In Answer To the...
45967Concerning Mr. Merckle, [after 2 June? 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AD : University of Pennsylvania Library J. P. Merckle had arrived in Bordeaux on the Dispatch and...
45968From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 28 June 1751 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library I receiv’d yours of March 26. with the Books per Smith in good...
45969From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 26 February 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I hope you continue well, as I do, Thanks to God. Be of good...
45970From Benjamin Franklin to Hugh Roberts, 7 July 1765 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Your kind Favour of May 20th. by the Hand of our good...
45971From Benjamin Franklin to John Tyler, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I received yours of May 16. and am glad to...
45972From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 4 August 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I hope you continue well tho’ I have not had the...
45973From Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Greene, 1 August 1763 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I ought to acquaint you that I feel myself growing daily...
45974From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 9 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Yale University Library; copy: Library of Congress I received yours with a Copy of the...
45975From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Tucker, 12 February 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Copy and transcript: Library of Congress Being informed by a Friend that some severe Strictures...
45976From Benjamin Franklin to John Winthrop, 1 May 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Library of Congress I received your kind Letter of Feb. 28. which gave me great...
45977From Benjamin Franklin to Caroline Edes, 13 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Press copy of ALS : Library of Congress I return enclos’d the Letter from my Friend Mr Bridgen,...
45978From Benjamin Franklin to Nathan Blodget, 19 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I lately received yours of the 3d inst. I conceive that it is with the...
45979From Benjamin Franklin to La Rochefoucauld, 8 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Bibliothèque municipale, Mantes M. Franklin presents his Respects to M. le Duc de...
45980From Benjamin Franklin to David Sears, 16 February 1779 [i.e., 17] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress There is no Article in the Treaty between France & the U. S. which...
45981From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Templeman, 12 August 1763 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Royal Society of Arts In my Journey from Philadelphia hither, I have had the Pleasure of...
45982The Reply of Homo Trium Literarum, 16 February 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Public Advertiser , February 16, 1774. This is one of the many contributions to...
45983From Benjamin Franklin to John Ross, 28 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yesterday your favour of the 23d. proposing a Ship to be...
45984From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 18 October 1748 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I have receiv’d your several Favours of April 1. June 2. June 14...
45985From Benjamin Franklin to Michel, 19 February 1785 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress The Humanity you have shown to that miserable young Female,...
45986From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Percival, [June? 1771] (Franklin Papers)
Extract printed in Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester , II (1785),...
45987From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Norris, 19 March 1759 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Yale University Library This unusually full and explicit letter describes more clearly than...
45988From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 19 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have just received your favour of the 16 inst. I think it right that...
45989From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 2 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This just informs you I am well and received yours by the...
45990From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquis de Lafayette, 3 August 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received two Letters you did me the honour of writing to me from...
45991From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 6 May 1773 (Franklin Papers)
LS (duplicate): Public Record Office; letterbook draft: Library of Congress Franklin’s account in...
45992From Benjamin Franklin to the Judges of the Admiralty of Vannes, 18 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Archives de la Marine By the declaration and report to me Made By the honourable Commodore...
45993From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 12 May 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library The enclos’d from the other two Commissioners to me is in answer to...
45994From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Holme, 27 March 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania I received your Favour of the 17th. Instant, with the...
45995From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 11 July 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : partially reproduced in Christie’s auction catalogue, “Important Autograph Letters from the...
45996From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 15 November 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères I received the Letter you did me the honour of...
45997From Benjamin Franklin to Stephen Sayre, 25 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: National Archives I have considered the proposition you mention & have given my...
45998To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 31 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I duly received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 17th. Instant inclosing a...
45999From Benjamin Franklin to Ebenezer Hazard, 3 August 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Application to be appointed Postmaster of...
46000From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 11 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The March Packet is not yet arriv’d. The Last I have...