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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46831 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 11 June 1779 | 1779-06-11 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress The Congress having... |
| 46832 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 17 February 1750 | 1750-02-17 | MS not found; reprinted from extract in Sparks, Works , VII , 40. I send Whiston’s Life. He seems... |
| 46833 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 22 November … | 1750-11-22 | ALS : New York Public Library (Berg) You are very obliging in your Compliments on my Sketch of... |
| 46834 | Franklin, Benjamin | Thomson, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, 5 February … | 1775-02-05 | Copy: Library of Congress I received duly your Favours of Nov. 1. by Capt. Falconer, and... |
| 46835 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mutiny Act, [4 November 1756] | 1756-11-04 | Reprinted (in part only) from The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 , V (Wm.... | |
| 46836 | Franklin, Benjamin | Richoufftz, Jean-Laurent-César, chevalier de | From Benjamin Franklin to [the Chevalier de … | 1777-07-15 | ALS (draft): Library of Congress I this day received your Letter of the 5th Instant, wherein you... |
| 46837 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 17 August … | 1772-08-17 | Reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin... |
| 46838 | Franklin, Benjamin | Melmoth, Courtney | From Benjamin Franklin to Courtney Melmoth, [on or … | ≈1778-05-12 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society It was with greater Inconvenience to myself, than you... |
| 46839 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rush, Benjamin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Rush, 14 July 1773 | 1773-07-14 | ALS : Yale University Library; letterbook draft: Library of Congress I received your Favour of... |
| 46840 | Franklin, Benjamin | Livingston, Robert R. | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert R. Livingston, 10 May … | 1783-05-10 | LS : New-York Historical Society Permit me to introduce to you the Bearer Mr. Hogendorff, of an... |
| 46841 | Franklin, Benjamin | Raspe, Rudolph Erich | From Benjamin Franklin to Rudolph Erich Raspe, 4 May … | 1779-05-04 | Copy: Library of Congress I received the letter you did me the honour to write by Messrs. Waitz &... |
| 46842 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rhoads, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Rhoads, 5 January 1774 | 1774-01-05 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I received your Favours of Oct. 29 and 31, inclosing the... |
| 46843 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 30 January 1748 | 1748-01-30 | MS not found; reprinted from Sparks, Works , VII , 33. I send you herewith the book, and enclosed... |
| 46844 | Franklin, Benjamin | Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne | From Benjamin Franklin to Montgolfier, 11 September … | 1783-09-11 | Copy: Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace Mr. Franklin remercie monsieur de Montgolfier de son... |
| 46845 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams with Adams’ Reply … | ≈1779-01-02 | AL : American Philosophical Society Please to send me Mr Williams’s Letter that objects to the... |
| 46846 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 17 March 1779 | 1779-03-17 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I... |
| 46847 | Franklin, Benjamin | Barry, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Barry, 24 January 1782 | 1782-01-24 | LS : American Philosophical Society; copies: Library of Congress, New-York Historical Society I... |
| 46848 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bache, Benjamin Franklin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Franklin Bache, 23 … | 1783-06-23 | ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I received your late Letter, and am pleas’d to see that... |
| 46849 | Franklin, Benjamin | Digges, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Digges, 20 August 1779 | 1779-08-20 | Copy: Library of Congress I hear Capt. Cunningham is confined in England a Prisoner. I desire you... |
| 46850 | Franklin, Benjamin | Smith, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Smith, 15 July 1773 | 1773-07-15 | AL (fragment of letterbook draft): Library of Congress I am much obliged by your kind Care in... |
| 46851 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 11 October 1784 | 1784-10-11 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères I beg leave to lay before your Excellency the... |
| 46852 | Franklin, Benjamin | Gérard de Rayneval, Joseph-Mathias | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph-Mathias Gérard de … | 1783-08-22 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères Mr Carnes having informed me that my... |
| 46853 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 20 July 1768 … | 1768-07-20 | Transcribed from ALS (in phonetic spelling): American Philosophical Society Many writers, from... |
| 46854 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 15 April 1754 | 1754-04-15 | ALS : Columbia University Library When I return’d from Maryland in February last, I found your... |
| 46855 | Franklin, Benjamin | Report on the Swamp, [24 February 1748] | 1748-02-24 | MS Minutes of the Common Council: Free Library of Philadelphia By 1740 the banks of Dock Creek... | |
| 46856 | Franklin, Benjamin | Smith, Isaac | From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Smith, 17 May 1771 | 1771-05-17 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Being greatly hurried in preparing for my Journey, I have... |
| 46857 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 2 December … | 1758-12-02 | MS not found; reprinted from Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity... |
| 46858 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin’s Draft of a Reply from the American … | 1779-01-04 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Your Intimation, that you expect more Money from us,... | |
| 46859 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bondfield, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Bondfield, 25 October … | 1781-10-25 | LS : American Philosophical Society; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I have just... |
| 46860 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 14 February 1779 | 1779-02-14 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I... |
| 46861 | Franklin, Benjamin | Subjects of Subjects [January 1768] | ≈1768-01-01 | Printed from The Gentleman’s Magazine , XXXVIII (1768), 6–7. At the close of 1767 a letter signed... | |
| 46862 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Jonathan Jr. | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 10 … | 1780-05-10 | Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 18th. past and the 6. Inst. and approve of the... |
| 46863 | Franklin, Benjamin | Watson, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Watson, 19 April 1754 | 1754-04-19 | Photostat of copy: American Philosophical Society I have lately perused the 47th Vol. of the... |
| 46864 | Franklin, Benjamin | Colomb, Pierre | From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Colomb, 27 August 1782 | 1782-08-27 | LS : American Philosophical Society J’ai reçu, Monsieur, les deux Lettres que vous m’avez fait... |
| 46865 | Franklin, Benjamin | Saintmartin, —— | From Benjamin Franklin to [ ――― Saintmartin], 1 … | 1777-09-01 | AL (draft): Library of Congress I duly received yours of the 26th past, and am much concern’d at... |
| 46866 | Franklin, Benjamin | Draft of a Resolution Proposed to Congress by the … | ≈1775-06-30 | AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Trade had bred controversy in the debates the previous... | |
| 46867 | Franklin, Benjamin | Articles of the Union Fire Company, 7 December 1736 | 1736-12-07 | MS Minute Book, Union Fire Company: Library Company of Philadelphia The seventh Day of December ,... | |
| 46868 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 12 April 1753 | 1753-04-12 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I have shipt 18 Glass Jarrs in Casks well pack’d, on board... |
| 46869 | Franklin, Benjamin | Laurens, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Laurens, 21 May 1781 | 1781-05-21 | LS : American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Library of Congress I sent you Yesterday some... |
| 46870 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bathurst, Lord | From Benjamin Franklin to Lord and Lady Bathurst … | ≈1762-11-01 | AL : Dartmouth College Library Dr. Franklin presents his respectful Compliments to Lord Bathurst,... |
| 46871 | Franklin, Benjamin | Roberts, Hugh | From Benjamin Franklin to Hugh Roberts, 16 July 1753 | 1753-07-16 | ALS : R. Sturgis Ingersoll, Penllyn, Pa. (1956) By a Vessel yesterday from London I receiv’d the... |
| 46872 | Franklin, Benjamin | Schuyler, Philip | From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Schuyler, 17 April … | 1776-04-17 | AL : New York Public Library We are all concern’d to hear of your Indisposition, and join in... |
| 46873 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1758 | ≈1758-01-01 | Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris … for the Year of our Lord 1758: … By... | |
| 46874 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 3 September 1774 | 1774-09-03 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Hearing just now of this Opportunity, I write a Line to... |
| 46875 | Franklin, Benjamin | Todd, Anthony | From Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Todd, 6 November 1764 | 1764-11-06 | Extract: Public Record Office Col. Bouquet marched from Pittsburgh the 4th of October, with 1500... |
| 46876 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 11 March 1784 | 1784-03-11 | Press copy of ALS : Library of Congress; copy: William L. Clements Library I received duly your... |
| 46877 | Franklin, Benjamin | Landais, Pierre | From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Landais, 1 March 1780 | 1780-03-01 | Copy: Library of Congress I receiv’d the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 28th.... |
| 46878 | Franklin, Benjamin | Le Maire de Gimel, Jacques | From Benjamin Franklin to Le Maire, [after 15 October … | ≈1778-10-15 | AL (draft): American Philosophical Society That Dr. F. has spoken to Mr. Lee in his Behalf, whose... |
| 46879 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 17 June 1767 | 1767-06-17 | ALS : Yale University Library We were greatly disappointed yesterday that we had not the... |
| 46880 | Franklin, Benjamin | Washington, George | To George Washington from Benjamin Franklin, 2 April … | 1782-04-02 | I received duly the Honour of your Letter accompanying the Capitulation of Gen. Cornwallis. All... |