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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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631 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Kite Experiment, 19 October 1752 | 1752-10-19 | I. Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , October 19, 1752; also copy: The Royal Society. II.... | |
632 | Perkins, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Perkins, 23 October 1752 | 1752-10-23 | ALS and AL : American Philosophical Society In the Inclos’d you have all I have to say of that... |
633 | Colden, Cadwallader | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 24 … | 1752-10-24 | Draft: New-York Historical Society I now send back to you Wilson on Electricity for the use of... |
634 | Mercer, William | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from William Mercer, 11 November … | 1752-11-11 | Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (London, 1769), pp.... |
635 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 16 November … | 1752-11-16 | ALS : Yale University Library Your Favours of Augt. 26. with the Books for the Library Company,... |
636 | Merchants of Philadelphia | George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland | Petition of the Merchants of Philadelphia to the King … | 1752-11-18 | Copy: Public Record Office In 1745 Arthur Dobbs, long an advocate of a search for a northwest... |
637 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Edward | From Benjamin Franklin to Edward and Jane Mecom, 30 … | 1752-11-30 | MS not found; reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., A Collection of Familiar Letters and... |
638 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 8 December … | 1752-12-08 | ALS : New York Academy of Medicine Reflecting yesterday on your Desire to have a flexible... |
639 | Dinwiddie, Robert | Washington, George | Commission as adjutant for southern district, 13 … | 1752-12-13 | Document not found: commission as adjutant for southern district, Williamsburg, 13 Dec. 1752. For... |
640 | Franklin, Benjamin | Eliot, Jared | From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 19 December 1752 | 1752-12-19 | MS not found; reprinted from American Journal of Science, and Arts , V (1823), 160–2. I received... |
641 | Watson, William | Royal Society | William Watson to the Royal Society, 20 December 1752 | 1752-12-20 | Printed in The Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions , XLVII (1751–52), 567–70. After the... |
642 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris … for the Year of our Lord 1753: … By... | |
643 | Dampier, William | William Dampier: Accounts of Water Spouts, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | I. Printed in: William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World , I (7th edit., London, 1729),... | |
644 | Perkins, John | John Perkins: Causes of Water Spouts, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | AD : American Philosophical Society Spouts have been generally believ’d Ascents of water from... | |
645 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | Transcript: Historical Society of Pennsylvania With regard to the Germans, I think Methods of... |
646 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | Transcript (fragment): American Philosophical Society [ Missing ] Riding offend the Part, and... |
647 | Franklin, Benjamin | Post Office Instructions and Directions, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | I. Broadside: University of Pennsylvania Library. II. Broadside: Yale University Library The... | |
648 | Alexander, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Alexander, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (London, 1769), pp.... |
649 | Franklin, Benjamin | Alexander, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Alexander, 1753 | ≈1753-01-01 | Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (London, 1769), pp.... |
650 | Franklin, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Franklin, [January 1753] | ≈1753-01-01 | Draft: New York Academy of Medicine With Regard to our fathers Estate I can only so far Inform... |
651 | Nollet, Jean-Antoine | Jean-Antoine Nollet: Letters on Electricity, [January … | ≈1753-01-01 | Lettres sur l’Electricité. Dans lesquelles on examine les dernières Découvertes qui ont été... | |
652 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, 2 January 1753 | 1753-01-02 | Transcript: Vassar B. Carlton, Titusville, Florida (1955) Yours of the 12th past gave me a great... |
653 | Parsons, William | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from [William Parsons], 15 January … | 1753-01-15 | Draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania When I left Philadelphia and every Friend and... |
654 | Collinson, Peter | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 27 January … | 1753-01-27 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Tho’ I am much engaged yett I cannot Lett Mesnard Sail... |
655 | Alexander, James | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from James Alexander, 29 January … | 1753-01-29 | Copies of letter and enclosure: New-York Historical Society The rare transits of Venus across the... |
656 | Perkins, John | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Perkins, February 1753 | ≈1753-02-01 | ALS and AD : American Philosophical Society I send you inclosed a Short account of a Me[teor?].... |
657 | Franklin, Benjamin | Perkins, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Perkins, 4 February 1753 | 1753-02-04 | Draft: American Philosophical Society I ought to have wrote to you long since, in Answer to yours... |
658 | Washington, George | Nelson, William | From George Washington to William Nelson, 12 February … | 1753-02-12 | Letter not found: to William Nelson, 12 Feb. 1753. On 22 Feb. 1753 Nelson wrote to GW : “I have... |
659 | Nelson, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from William Nelson, 22 February … | 1753-02-22 | I have received yours of the 12th Instant, in which you express a Desire to be removed to the... |
660 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 28 February … | 1753-02-28 | ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society The enclos’d is a Copy of a Letter and some Papers I... |