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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48151 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bache, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard and Sarah Bache, 31 … | 1778-03-31 | ALS : New York Public Library; AL (draft): Library of Congress His Excellency, M. Gerard, who... |
| 48152 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dumas, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric | From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 18[–20] January 1781 | ≈1781-01-18 | LS : Henry E. Huntington Library; AL (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Library of Congress,... |
| 48153 | Franklin, Benjamin | Durif de Cazaneuve, —— | From Benjamin Franklin to ——— Durif de Cazaneuve, 19 … | 1779-03-19 | Copy: Library of Congress It wou’d be a Pleasure to me if I could comply with your Request, and... |
| 48154 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 30 January … | 1782-01-30 | Copies: Library of Congress, Virginia Historical Society On perusing again your late Letters, I... |
| 48155 | Franklin, Benjamin | Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital | From Benjamin Franklin to a Committee of the Managers … | 1772-08-28 | ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress Mr. Barclay writes to you fully, but I cannot refuse... |
| 48156 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 24 April 1779 | 1779-04-24 | LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: Library of Congress By the enclosed Letter from M.... |
| 48157 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bache, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 17 February … | 1774-02-17 | LS : Mrs. Edward M. Korry, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (1976); ALS (draft): American Philosophical... |
| 48158 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Narrative of the Late Massacres, [30 January? 1764] | 1764-01-30 | A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this... | |
| 48159 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 October … | 1748-10-19 | ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I receiv’d your Favour of April 25, with the Maps, &c. I am glad... |
| 48160 | Franklin, Benjamin | Burke, Edmund | From Benjamin Franklin to Edmund Burke, 19 December … | 1774-12-19 | ALS : Central Library, Sheffield The Congress had told the seven active colonial agents to... |
| 48161 | Franklin, Benjamin | Pemberton, Israel | From Benjamin Franklin to Israel Pemberton, 19 March … | 1759-03-19 | LS : Boston Public Library I received your Favour of December 11, and January 19. By those Ships... |
| 48162 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Jonathan Jr. | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 19 … | 1779-03-19 | LS : Dartmouth College Library; copy: Library of Congress In your receipts for M. Monthieu’s... |
| 48163 | Franklin, Benjamin | Toleration in Old and New England, 3 June 1772 | 1772-06-03 | Printed in The London Packet , June 3, 1772; incomplete draft: American Philosophical Society I... | |
| 48164 | Franklin, Benjamin | Carié, ——, le jeune | From Benjamin Franklin to Carié le jeune, 1 February … | 1782-02-01 | Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 24th.... |
| 48165 | Franklin, Benjamin | Certificate for Arendt, [18 May 1780] | 1780-05-18 | Copy: Library of Congress Colonel D’Arendt in the service of the United States of America, having... | |
| 48166 | Franklin, Benjamin | “Une Abonnée,” [after 27 August 1783] | ≈1783-08-27 | AL (draft): Library of Congress; copy: American Philosophical Society Letters to the editor... | |
| 48167 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hodgson, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Hodgson, 8 August … | 1781-08-08 | AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 20th past. That of the 8th... |
| 48168 | Franklin, Benjamin | Deumié Groc, (Jean-Baptiste?) | From Benjamin Franklin to Deumié Groc, 25 February 1785 | 1785-02-25 | Copy of translation: American Philosophical Society Jay recu la Lettre que Vous m’aviez fait... |
| 48169 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard, 1739 | ≈1739-01-01 | Poor Richard, 1739. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1739 ,... By Richard Saunders, Philom.... | |
| 48170 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 26 June 1753 | 1753-06-26 | ALS : Huntington Library I received a Letter from you on the Road hither, with one of the... |
| 48171 | Franklin, Benjamin | Russell, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Russell, Silvanus Grove … | 1780-05-20 | Copy: Library of Congress I have just received from his Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Governor of... |
| 48172 | Franklin, Benjamin | Carroll, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Carroll and Samuel … | 1776-05-27 | ALS : New York Public Library We arrived here safe yesterday Evening, having left Mrs. Walker... |
| 48173 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de | From Benjamin Franklin to Sartine, 5 August 1780 | 1780-08-05 | LS : Archives de la Marine; copy: Library of Congress Having just received these Letters under... |
| 48174 | Franklin, Benjamin | Note on Marginalia in Another Letter, an Anonymous … | ≈1770-01-01 | MS notations appear on pp. 139–40 of a copy in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of Another... | |
| 48175 | Franklin, Benjamin | Castries, Charles-Eugène-Gabriel de La Croix … | From Benjamin Franklin to Castries, 7 September 1782 | 1782-09-07 | Copy: Archives de la Marine J’ay l’honneur de transmettre à V. E. la copie d’une lettre que je... |
| 48176 | Franklin, Benjamin | French, Katherine | From Benjamin Franklin to Katherine French, 26 February … | 1771-02-26 | ALS : Yale University Library After so full an Opinion in favour of your Friend’s Work from the... |
| 48177 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 12[–16] October … | ≈1781-10-12 | LS : Massachusetts Historical Society I received the Letter your Excellency did me the honour of... |
| 48178 | Franklin, Benjamin | Speculation on the Speed of Ships, 5 April 1775 | 1775-04-05 | MS : Library of Congress During his homeward voyage Franklin took time off from writing his... | |
| 48179 | Franklin, Benjamin | Huntington, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Huntington, 3 May 1781 | 1781-05-03 | ALS : National Archives, American Philosophical Society; transcript: National Archives Enclos’d... |
| 48180 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 16 November … | 1753-11-16 | MS not found; reprinted from extract in Merwin Sales Company, Catalogue No. 557 (1914), p. 16. I... |
| 48181 | Franklin, Benjamin | Leech, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Leech and Assembly … | 1758-05-13 | LS with ALS postscript: Yale University Library I receiv’d yours of February 6. with the Votes... |
| 48182 | Franklin, Benjamin | Address to the Associators, 7 December 1747 | 1747-12-07 | MS (fragment): American Philosophical Society The Associators—almost 600 in number—assembled with... | |
| 48183 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hancock, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Hancock, 11 September … | 1755-09-11 | LS : Harvard College Library You may remember that when I last had the Pleasure of seeing you, I... |
| 48184 | Franklin, Benjamin | Evans, Cadwalader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 5 [August] … | 1767-08-05 | MS not found; reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , No. 5... |
| 48185 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 2 July 1752 | 1752-07-02 | ALS : Columbia University Library I have sent you via New York 24 of your Books, bound as those I... |
| 48186 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jay, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 5 May 1781 | 1781-05-05 | LS : Columbia University Library; al (draft) and two copies: Library of Congress I have received... |
| 48187 | Franklin, Benjamin | Grand, Rodolphe-Ferdinand | From Benjamin Franklin to Ferdinand Grand, 16 March … | 1779-03-16 | Copy: Library of Congress I find in my Bill Book, that I accepted on the 19 of february, the... |
| 48188 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 13 April 1772 | 1772-04-13 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter by Mrs. Wright, and shall do her... |
| 48189 | Franklin, Benjamin | Caldani, Leopold Marcantonio | From Benjamin Franklin to Leopold Caldani, 26 April … | 1782-04-26 | Facsimile of ALS in Heinrich Lempertz, comp., Bilder-Hefte zur Geschichte des Bücherhandels und... |
| 48190 | Franklin, Benjamin | Le Despencer, Francis Dashwood, Baron | From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Le Despencer, 26 July … | 1770-07-26 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I heartily wish your Lordship would urge the Plan of... |
| 48191 | Franklin, Benjamin | Searle, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Searle, 15 March 1781 | 1781-03-15 | L : New York Public Library Dr Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr Searle and requests the... |
| 48192 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de | From Benjamin Franklin to Sartine, 18 April 1779 | 1779-04-18 | Copy: Library of Congress By Letters I am daily receiving, I find there are in various Prisons of... |
| 48193 | Franklin, Benjamin | a Member of the Royal Society | From Benjamin Franklin to a Member of the Royal … | 1772-11-26 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The Council of the Royal Society having put Sir John... |
| 48194 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 9 March 1782 | 1782-03-09 | Copy: Library of Congress I have just received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me... |
| 48195 | Franklin, Benjamin | Brillon de Jouy, Anne-Louise Boivin d’Hardancourt | From Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon, [1 September … | 1778-09-01 | LS : American Philosophical Society September saw a turning point in the relationship between... |
| 48196 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 16 September 1779 | 1779-09-16 | Copy: Library of Congress The Person mentioned in your Excellency’s Letter of yesterday, has been... |
| 48197 | Franklin, Benjamin | Pownall, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Pownall, [before 20 … | ≈1755-09-01 | MS not found; extract reprinted from New York Colonial Documents , VI , 1008–9. Conraed Weiser... |
| 48198 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lafreté, Angélique-Michèle-Rosalie Jogues de … | From Benjamin Franklin to Madame Lafreté, [1781?] | ≈1781-01-01 | Printed by Benjamin Franklin, Passy: Yale University Library This letter, known to modern readers... |
| 48199 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dick, Sir Alexander | From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Alexander Dick, 17 … | 1760-09-17 | ALS : Western Reserve Historical Society It gave me great Pleasure to learn from Dr. Robertson,... |
| 48200 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 23 March 1783 | 1783-03-23 | Reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin... |