47901From Benjamin Franklin to Hugh Roberts, 16 September 1758 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Your kind Letter of June 1. gave me great Pleasure. I...
47902From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval, 15 March 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I thank you for your Care in sending my Packet which I received. I...
47903From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 17 June 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you some time since, having heard from one of the...
47904Scheme for Supplying the Colonies with a Paper Currency, [11–12 February? 1765] (Franklin Papers)
Draft (first part only): American Philosophical Society; remainder reprinted from Thomas Pownall,...
47905Reply to a Piece of Advice, 4 March 1735 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , March 4, 1734/5. In your Paper of the 18th past, some...
47906From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 1752 (Franklin Papers)
I. MS not found; printed in Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity...
47907From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquis de Lafayette, 14 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and incomplete copy: Library of Congress You are a very good Correspondent, which I do...
47908From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 9 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin...
47909Franklin: Answers to Queries from Dr. Ingenhousz, [after 3 May 1780] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress Question I. Answer By the Circumstances that have...
47910“F.B.”: Second Reply to Tom Hint, [23 December 1765] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser , December 27, 1765 This is the second of...
47911From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 10 October 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Blumhaven Library and Art Gallery, Philadelphia The within is a Copy of mine that went with...
47912From Benjamin Franklin to William Coleman, 8 December 1757 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; abstract: Minute-Book of the Academy Trustees, Trustees of the University of...
47913From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Walpole, 11 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : David Holland, London (1955) I ought long since to have acknowledg’d the Receipt of the...
47914From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 23 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letters you did me the honour of writing to me, the...
47915Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 16 April 1784 (Adams Papers)
We duly receiv’d (M r Jay & me) the Letters you did us the honour of writing to us the 27th of...
47916From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Carroll, 2 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress This will be delivered to you by the Chevalier de La Luzerne, who...
47917From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 1[–2] December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library; press copy of ALS : Harvard University Library In mine of...
47918From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 29 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 18th. and 22 & communicated them to Mr....
47919Recipe for Making Bread of Corn Flour Mixed with Wheat Flour, [c. 5 February 1784] (Franklin Papers)
D : American Philosophical Society Pour faire du Pain avec la Farine de Maïs, mêlée avec la...
47920From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 8 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your favour of Nov. 2. in which I see you have started a...
47921Dialogue between Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Saxony and America, [1774–75] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress; copy: American Philosophical Society It has been demonstrated that...
47922From Benjamin Franklin to Hughes and Co.: Directions for Making a Musical Instrument, [1762] (Franklin Papers)
AD : The Assay Office, Birmingham, England In an advertisement for the armonica in the London...
47923From Benjamin Franklin to [William Strahan?], 1 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N.Y. (1955) This is only to cover a Bill of...
47924From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 2 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I know no more than you the Reasons of the Change respecting the...
47925From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 27 April 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter of Jan. 30. Mrs. Stevenson has...
47926From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Peters, 5 June 1755 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Stanford University Library I sent Mr. Burd’s Letter and yours which were given me by the...
47927From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 2 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives I...
47928Certificate Condemning Prizes, [before 9 February 1780] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): Historical Society of Delaware I the underwritten, Minister Plenipotentiary from the...
47929Notes on Britain’s Intention to Enslave America [1774–75?] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): Library of Congress These notes are impossible to date. At the head of the sheet a...
47930From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 9 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have long feared that by our continually worring the Ministry here...
47931From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Dana, 2 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress Inclos’d I send...
47932From Benjamin Franklin to Brault and Demezandré, 8 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the Honor to write to me of the 1st....
47933From Benjamin Franklin to John Dixon, 7 October 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I was duly favour’d with yours of March 8. 1771....
47934From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, [11 July 1780] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress There are on board the Alliance five Cases of Types shipped by Mr....
47935From Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, 31 [i.e., 1?] August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from The Deane Papers, 1774–90 (5 vols.; New-York Historical Society Collections ,...
47936From Benjamin Franklin to John Morgan, 5 February 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I received your Favour of July 6. just as I was about...
47937From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, [28 March 1760?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Yesterday I receiv’d your [Letter] of Feb. 10. in which you...
47938From Benjamin Franklin to George Washington, 19 August 1756 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I have your Favours of July 23. and Aug. 3. but that you mention to...
47939From Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, 14 February 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library; letterbook draft: Library of Congress A considerable Time after...
47940From Benjamin Franklin to Ebenezer Kinnersley, with Associated Papers, 20 February 1762 (Franklin Papers)
MSS not found; reprinted from Experiments and Observations on Electricity , 1769 edition, pp....
47941From Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, 7 October 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Mrs. Craig Barrow, Wormsloe, Savannah, Ga. (1961) In my last I acquainted you with the...
47942From Benjamin Franklin to Philip Mazzei, 27 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Dartmouth College Library It was with great Pleasure I learnt from Mr. Jefferson, that you...
47943From Benjamin Franklin to [Jacques-Louis?] Besnard, 12 September 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Press copy of LS : American Philosophical Society J’ai reçu, Monsieur, la Lettre que vous m’avez...
47944From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 7 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress This will be delivered to you by M. Dumas,...
47945An Edict by the King of Prussia, 22 September 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Public Advertiser , September 22, 1773. When this famous hoax first appeared,...
47946From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Adams, 2 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library By this Conveyance the Treaties we have concluded here go over to...
47947From Benjamin Franklin to Sonnemaens, 16 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received duly the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the...
47948From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 15 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Harvard University Library, Library of Congress I receivd the Letter you did me the...
47949From Benjamin Franklin to Robert R. Livingston, 14 October 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS and transcript: National Archives I have but just received Information of this Opportunity,...
47950From Benjamin Franklin to Anna Mordaunt Shipley, 13 August 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library It has been well said of this letter that “nothing in all...