48351From Benjamin Franklin to Chaumont, 5 August 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress I received your Favour of the 2d...
48352From Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 28 May–1 June 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (incomplete draft): American Philosophical Society; incomplete translated extract: printed in...
48353Marginalia in [Josiah Tucker], A Letter from a Merchant, [1770?] (Franklin Papers)
MS notations in the margins of a copy in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of [Josiah...
48354From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 8 September 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères Mr Barclay who will have the honour of...
48355From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Hubbard, 28 April 1758 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Harvard College Library In persuance of Mr. Winthrop’s memorandum, which I lately rece’d...
48356From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Pownall, 1 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
Press copy of ALS : Library of Congress The above is Extract of a Letter I wrote you in Septr....
48357From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Nathaniel Bancroft, 26 March 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I have received two Letters from you, and am pleas’d to see that...
48358Extracts from the Gazette, 1739 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 4 to December 27, 1739. [ Advertisement ] Benjamin...
48359From Benjamin Franklin to Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 4 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives It is so long since I heard from you,...
48360From Benjamin Franklin to Grace Williams, 5 March 1771 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin...
48361From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 27 December 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 15th with Letters from Commodore Jones and...
48362From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 12 October 1774 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society I wrote to you on the 1st Inst. per Capt. Cook;...
48363From Benjamin Franklin to Archibald Douglas, 23 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 18th. relating to the Loss of your Captain...
48364From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Penington, 5 August 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I received yours of May 21. and 25. with a Letter and...
48365From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Pierpont Morgan Library; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress This will be delivered to...
48366From Benjamin Franklin to De Chezaulx, 21 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Mr. De Chaumont having had the whole Care of equipping and paying every...
48367From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 16 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Agreeable to your Desire I have requested the American Gentlemen...
48368From Benjamin Franklin to William Hodgson, 26 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office Your two Favours of the 9th Instant came to my hands but a few days...
48369From Benjamin Franklin to the Georgia Assembly Committee of Correspondence, 10 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: Georgia Historical Society Your several Favours of May 11, 23, and 28 came duly...
48370From Benjamin Franklin to Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone, 15 April 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Two press copies of LS , LS , and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft), copy, and press copy...
48371From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, 27 May 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives; copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, Library of Congress I received...
48372Constitutional Convention. Second of Benjamin Franklin’s Motion that Proposed Executive Serve Without Pay, 2 June 1787 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 2, 1787. On this date Benjamin Franklin moved that the expenses of the...
48373From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Franklin, [before 1765] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Benjamin Franklin, Experiments ana Observations on Electricity ,...
48374From Benjamin Franklin to ———, 26 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Philosophical Society Les affaires dont je suis chargé, Monsieur, ne me...
48375From Benjamin Franklin to Timothy Folger, 21 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Folger Library I received yours of June 28. and immediately sent the same to the Proprietor...
48376From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 6 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I wrote to you of the 14th Feby. and 15th of March,...
48377From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 11 August 1762 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Henry N. Haiken, New York City (1957) This is the best Paper I can get at this wretched...
48378From Benjamin Franklin to Woestyn frères, 20 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I am very sensible of the Honor you propose to do me in the naming of...
48379From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Bache, 1 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I have received yours of Oct. 6 and 13. and Sally’s...
48380From Benjamin Franklin to Schweighauser, 17 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have now before me your favours of july 31. & Aug. 19. Your testimony...
48381From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Gouverneur and Samuel Curson, 22 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the Honour of Writing...
48382From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Kames, 21 February 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Scottish Record Office I received your excellent Paper on the preferable Use of Oxen in...
48383Advertisement for Wagons, 26 April 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Broadside: American Philosophical Society; also Boston Public Library Whereas 150 Waggons, with 4...
48384From Benjamin Franklin to Juvel Neveux & Cauchoit, 23 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
L (draft): American Philosophical Society M. Franklin a reçu la Lettre que Messrs. Juvel neveux...
48385From Benjamin Franklin to All Commanders of Vessels of War, [4 March 1779] (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress To all Commanders of...
48386From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Franklin, 13 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I received your kind Letter of Nov. 8. and...
48387Franklin’s Journal, 1–3 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
AD : Library of Congress Went to Court; which was full, as usual on New-Years day. Visit with the...
48388From Benjamin Franklin to Soller, 28 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Haverford College Library As the Commerce is now open between France and America, the...
48389From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 24 March 1783 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; draft: American Philosophical Society Je...
48390From Benjamin Franklin to William Lee, 2 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Before I apply for the Arms you desire, I wish to be informed whether...
48391From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library; transcript: Library of Congress I receiv’d yours of the 18th and...
48392From Benjamin Franklin to John Morgan, 16 August 1762 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I ought before now to have acknowledg’d the Receipt of a Letter...
48393Draft of a Petition from the Colonial Agents to the House of Commons, [between 24 February 1769 and 7 March 1769] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Charles Garth Letterbook, South Carolina Archives Department The fate of the petition that...
48394Advertisement to Wagoners, 6 May 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Broadside: Yale University Library Notice is hereby given to all who have contracted to send...
48395From Benjamin Franklin to [Jean-Baptiste] Le Roy, [after 18 December 1778] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society M. Franklin requests M. Le Roy to tell him the Name of...
48396From Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbart Partridge, 13 January 1772: fragment (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft; incomplete): American Philosophical Society I received your angry-a-little...
48397From Benjamin Franklin to Adamoli, 29 January 1780 [i.e., 1779] (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 22....
48398From Benjamin Franklin to the Abbé Morellet, [after 5 July? 1779] (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from M. Lémontey, ed., Mémoires de l’abbé Morellet … (2 vols., Paris, 1821), I , 294–7;...
48399From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 3 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me...
48400“A Virginian”: Second Reply to Mr. Pym, 5 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Lloyd’s Evening Post, And British Chronicle , September 9–11, 1765. The grounds for...