47491From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 20 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft): Library of Congress Your very...
47492From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson and Thomas Mifflin, 27 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Amherst College Library Enclos’d is Bill of Lading and Invoice of the Books you order’d,...
47493From Benjamin Franklin to Meÿer, 20 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me dated the...
47494From Benjamin Franklin to John Walsh et al., 2 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I am sorry to understand by your Memorial of the 16. Past, which came...
47495From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 24 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Harvard University Library Being desirous of thoroughly understanding M. Monthieu’s...
47496From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes: Letter and Memoir, 15[–16] February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; Copy: Library of Congress I received the...
47497From Benjamin Franklin to Taverne Demont Dhiver, 28 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I am honor’d with yours of the 22 Inst. applying for two Commissions. I...
47498From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 4 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of...
47499Standing Queries for the Junto, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces , ed. Benjamin...
47500From Benjamin Franklin to John Bondfield, 4 July 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress This Morning some Bills drawn by you were presented to me amounting to...
47501Obituary of Thomas Hopkinson, 14 November 1751 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , November 14, 1751. Last Week died here the honourable...
47502From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 19[–24] October 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Bristol, R.I., Historical Society We hear you have had an Alarm at Philada. I hope no ill...
47503From Benjamin Franklin to Hugh Roberts, 9 August 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I wrote you lately that 20 Guineas was demanded by Kirk...
47504From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 21 February 1757 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of the Familiar Letters and...
47505From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Martin, 5 August 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : John Carter Brown Library; copy: North Carolina Office of Archives and History Mr Edward...
47506From Benjamin Franklin to Robert R. Livingston, 4 December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS , press copy of LS , and transcript: National Archives We detain the Washington a little...
47507Extracts from the Gazette, 1732 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 4 to December 28, 1732. ⁂ We have no Entries this...
47508From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 29 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 16th.— I am excedingly vex’d at the Delay of...
47509From Benjamin Franklin to [Mary Hewson], 1 January 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Health and Prosperity, and many happy Years, to my dear...
47510From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 20 May 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : William L. Clements Library; enclosure: AD : Yale University Library I had no Line from you...
47511From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 27 January 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; AL (draft) and two copies: Library of Congress I believe my...
47512Agreement to Admit the Ohio Company as Co-Purchasers with the Grand Ohio Company, 7 May 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries, Concerning the Antiquities, History...
47513From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun, 3 March 1757 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Huntington Library I thank your Lordship for the Information you have been pleas’d to...
47514To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 10 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
I received the honour of yours of the 29th. past from Nantes. I hope you are before this time...
47515From Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Greene, [10 November 1763] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I should ask Mr. Greene’s Permission now to call you so,...
47516From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Tucker, 26 February 1774 (Franklin Papers)
Copy and transcript: Library of Congress I thank you for the Frankness with which you have...
47517From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 30 March 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I begin to think it long since I had the Pleasure of...
47518Silence Dogood, No. 9, 23 July 1722 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The New-England Courant , July 23, 1722. Corruptio optimi est pessima. It has been for...
47519On the Need for an Academy, 24 August 1749 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 24, 1749. By 1740 Franklin was well satisfied with...
47520From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 30 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: Library of Congress I have had a severe Fit of the...