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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48311 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bouquet, Henry | From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Bouquet, 16 August 1764 | 1764-08-16 | ALS : British Museum Returning just now from the Board of Commissioners, I found your agreable... |
| 48312 | Franklin, Benjamin | Galloway, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 14 April … | 1767-04-14 | ALS : William L. Clements Library I have before me your Favours of Jan. 11. and 14. Feb. 20. and... |
| 48313 | Franklin, Benjamin | Johnson, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, 11 July 1751 | 1751-07-11 | ALS (mutilated): Yale University Library I receiv’d your Favours of June [ and] July 4. I am... |
| 48314 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 12 September … | 1775-09-12 | AL (draft): Library of Congress I have this Day received your Favours per Capt. Falconer, of... |
| 48315 | Franklin, Benjamin | Thomson, Charles | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, 11 July 1765 | 1765-07-11 | LS : Library of Congress; extract: printed in The London Chronicle , November 14–16, 1765. I am... |
| 48316 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mutiny Act, [15 April 1756] | 1756-04-15 | Printed in Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Vigesimo Nono.... | |
| 48317 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 15 March 1770 | 1770-03-15 | Reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers... |
| 48318 | Franklin, Benjamin | Schweighauser, Jean-Daniel | From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Daniel Schweighauser, 17 … | 1781-02-17 | Copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 8th. Inst. inclosing Letters from America... |
| 48319 | Franklin, Benjamin | Norris, Isaac | Account of Sales of Stock, [26 November 1761] | 1761-11-26 | Copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Sold for Benj: Franklin Esqr 1761 Novbr. 26 £700 4 per... |
| 48320 | Franklin, Benjamin | Carmichael, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Carmichael, 24 August … | 1781-08-24 | AL (draft) and two copies: Library of Congress On looking over your Letters I am asham’d to find... |
| 48321 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 10 May 1779 | 1779-05-10 | LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: Library of Congress I received the honour of yours... |
| 48322 | Franklin, Benjamin | From the Casuist: The Case of the Missing Horse, 25 … | 1732-01-25 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 25, 1731/2; also draft: Historical Society of... | |
| 48323 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Walter | From Benjamin Franklin to Walter Williams and Helenus … | 1780-11-24 | Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letters you did me the Honour of writing to me on the... |
| 48324 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adoubeden, —— | From Benjamin Franklin to ――― Adoubeden with a Covering … | 1777-05-02 | ALS (two drafts): Library of Congress It would be a pleasure to me if I could comply with your... |
| 48325 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lee, Arthur | From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 9 October 1779 | 1779-10-09 | Copy: Library of Congress I have received no Answer relative to the Proposition you mention.... |
| 48326 | Franklin, Benjamin | Baudouin, —— | From Benjamin Franklin to Baudouin, 18 June 1779 | 1779-06-18 | Copy: Library of Congress I shall write immediately as you desired to the Capitain of the... |
| 48327 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rise of the Late War, [18 May 1756] | 1756-05-18 | Ad: American Philosophical Society When and for what purpose Franklin prepared this brief... | |
| 48328 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 1 January … | 1757-01-01 | Original ALS not found; duplicate: Pierpont Morgan Library I wrote you yesterday a Line or two... |
| 48329 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dalibard, Thomas-François | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas-François Dalibard, 9 … | 1761-12-09 | MS not found; translation of extract reprinted from Gazette d’Epidaure, ou Recueil de Nouvelles... |
| 48330 | Franklin, Benjamin | Jackson, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 11 February … | 1764-02-11 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have just received your Favour by the extra Packet of Nov.... |
| 48331 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 7 November 1748 | 1748-11-07 | MS not found; reprinted from extract in Sparks, Works , VII , 39–40. I send you herewith the late... |
| 48332 | Franklin, Benjamin | Coffyn, Francis | From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Coffyn, 10 October … | 1779-10-10 | Copy: Library of Congress I have no objection to the taking the Parole of the Captains or... |
| 48333 | Franklin, Benjamin | Evans, Cadwalader | From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 4 July 1771 | 1771-07-04 | Reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania , XVI , no. 5 (August 1,... |
| 48334 | Franklin, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 14 December 1781 | 1781-12-14 | I duly received your Excellency’s Favour of the 1st. and 6th Instant. I wrote to you by Mr... |
| 48335 | Franklin, Benjamin | Burke, Edmund | From Benjamin Franklin to Edmund Burke, 15 December … | 1781-12-15 | ALS : Sheffield Central Library; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I did myself the honour... |
| 48336 | Franklin, Benjamin | Partridge, Richard | From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Partridge, 27 … | 1755-11-27 | ALS : Boston Public Library By the Votes and Copies of Papers herewith sent to you and Mr.... |
| 48337 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sartine, Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de | From Benjamin Franklin to Sartine, 20 March 1779 | 1779-03-20 | Copy: Library of Congress Je prends la Liberté d’introduire aupres de votre Excellence le... |
| 48338 | Franklin, Benjamin | James, Abel | From Benjamin Franklin to Abel James, 3 June 1772 | 1772-06-03 | ALS : Yale University Library Agreable to your Request when in London and what you wrote to me... |
| 48339 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 1 February 1782 | 1782-02-01 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress By certain... |
| 48340 | Franklin, Benjamin | Lee, Arthur | From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee: Two Notes, 18 … | 1779-02-18 | (I) and (II) LS : Harvard University Library; copies: National Archives, Library of Congress;... |
| 48341 | Franklin, Benjamin | Coffyn, Francis | From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Coffyn, 4 August 1779 | 1779-08-04 | Copy: Library of Congress Sixteen French Sailors who belonged to Cap. Cunningham having been... |
| 48342 | Franklin, Benjamin | Certification of Bills, [8 August 1784] | 1784-08-08 | Press copy of DS and copy: College of William and Mary Library I do hereby Certify whom it may... | |
| 48343 | Franklin, Benjamin | Greene, Catharine | From Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Greene, 5 September … | 1763-09-05 | ALS : American Philosophical Society On my returning hither from Portsmouth, I find your obliging... |
| 48344 | Franklin, Benjamin | Logan, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 29 November 1748 | 1748-11-29 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I received your Favour of the 9th Inst. with the Voyage... |
| 48345 | Franklin, Benjamin | Chevallié, Pierre-François | From Benjamin Franklin to Chevallié, 26 February 1785 | 1785-02-26 | ALS : Library of Congress I duly receiv’d in its time, the Letter you did me the honour of... |
| 48346 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, [c. 7 April … | 1759-04-07 | LS (incomplete): American Philosophical Society [ First part missing ] By the same I shall write... |
| 48347 | Franklin, Benjamin | Moore, Samuel Preston | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Preston Moore, 21 … | 1761-02-21 | ALS : Library Company of Philadelphia I wrote to you per Capt. Calef, via New-York, that I had... |
| 48348 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bache, Benjamin Franklin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Franklin Bache, 7 … | 1783-01-07 | ALS : Chapin Library, Williams College; press copy of ALS : American Philosophical Society I... |
| 48349 | Franklin, Benjamin | “A Traveller”: News-Writers’ Nonsense, 20 May 1765 | 1765-05-20 | Printed in The Public Advertiser , May 22, 1765; draft: American Philosophical Society As Verner... | |
| 48350 | Franklin, Benjamin | Le Couteulx & Cie. | From Benjamin Franklin to Le Couteulx & Cie., 2 July … | 1783-07-02 | AL (draft): Historical Society of Pennsylvania I have the honour of sending you enclos’d a Letter... |
| 48351 | Franklin, Benjamin | Chaumont | From Benjamin Franklin to Chaumont, 5 August 1779 | 1779-08-05 | LS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 2d... |
| 48352 | Franklin, Benjamin | Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques | From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 28 … | ≈1773-05-28 | ALS (incomplete draft): American Philosophical Society; incomplete translated extract: printed in... |
| 48353 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marginalia in [Josiah Tucker], A Letter from a … | ≈1770-01-01 | MS notations in the margins of a copy in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of [Josiah... | |
| 48354 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de | From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 8 September 1782 | 1782-09-08 | LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères Mr Barclay who will have the honour of... |
| 48355 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hubbard, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Hubbard, 28 April 1758 | 1758-04-28 | Copy: Harvard College Library In persuance of Mr. Winthrop’s memorandum, which I lately rece’d... |
| 48356 | Franklin, Benjamin | Pownall, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Pownall, 1 March 1785 | 1785-03-01 | Press copy of ALS : Library of Congress The above is Extract of a Letter I wrote you in Septr.... |
| 48357 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Nathaniel Bancroft, 26 … | 1784-03-26 | ALS : Yale University Library I have received two Letters from you, and am pleas’d to see that... |
| 48358 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 | ≈1739-01-04 | Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 4 to December 27, 1739. [ Advertisement ] Benjamin... | |
| 48359 | Franklin, Benjamin | Dumas, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric | From Benjamin Franklin to Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric … | 1781-05-04 | Copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives It is so long since I heard from you,... |
| 48360 | Franklin, Benjamin | Williams, Grace | From Benjamin Franklin to Grace Williams, 5 March 1771 | 1771-03-05 | Reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin... |