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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, November 4, 1754
Boston, Nov. 4. 1754 Dear Sir I am favoured with yours of July 31. and Augt. 5. which came to hand since my Arrival here. 4 I hear from Mr.…
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Letters from Benjamin Franklin
B. 1706 · D. 1790
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Darling, November 25, 1754
Boston, Nov. 25. 1754 Gentlemen I hoped to have had the Pleasure of seeing you at New Haven long before this time, but the Sickness of my Fellow Traveller Mr.…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, December 3, 1754
Tuesday Morning [December 3, 1754]. 1 Sir, I return the loose sheets of the plan, with thanks to your Excellency for communicating them. I apprehend, that excluding the People of…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, December 4, 1754
Boston. December 4. 1754 Sir, I mention’d it Yesterday to your Excellency as my Opinion, that Excluding the People of the Colonies from all Share in the Choice of the…
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Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, December 12, 1754
Boston, Dec. 12. 1754 Sir I received here your Favour of the 9th of Augt. and have forwarded that directed to our Friend Mr. Elliot. 4 I thank you for…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, December 22, 1754
Boston, Dec. 22, 1754 Sir, Since the conversation your Excellency was pleased to honour me with, on the subject of uniting the Colonies more intimately with Great Britain, by allowing…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, December 29, 1754
Boston, Dec. 29. 1754 Dear Sir I wrote a few Lines by a Vessel that went from hence about 2 Weeks since, acknowledging the Receipt of your several Favours of…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, December 30, 1754
Monday morng Dec. 30. [1754] Dear Sir The enclos’d I intended to send to London but have not yet sent any Part of it. 6 Some of the Letters being…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, December 30, 1754
Monday Morning [December 30? 1754] 7 [Sir] I return your Excellency the Papers you have been pleas’d to favour me with the Perusal of. 8 I really can think of…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Birkett, March 1, 1755
Philada. March 1. 1755. Sir I am but just returned from a long Journey, after near 6 Months Absence, and find your Favour of Sept. 29. 7 by which I…
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Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, March 1, 1755
[March–April 1755] 6 [I told him that as] I did not know her, I must refer him for Advice to his good Friends in Boston, who could better adapt it…
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Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, March 4, 1755
Philada. March 4. 1755 Dear Katy, Your kind Letter of January 20. 5 is but just come to hand, and I take this first Opportunity of acknowledging the Favour. It…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Leverett, March 11, 1755
Philada. March 11. 1755 Sir Mrs. Franklin is confident that she sent 20 Reams of the Paper I order’d for you, but has no Bill of Lading for it, and…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, March 16, 1755
Philada. March 16. 55 Dear Brother I am pleas’d to hear you are looking out for Proofs to prosecute that Carrier. 9 Don’t let it be neglected. Your Ambassadors are…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, March 18, 1755
Philadelphia, March 18, 1755 Sir, I send you enclosed a paper containing some new experiments I have made, in pursuance of those by Mr. Canton that are printed with my…
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Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, March 20, 1755
March 20. 1755 Sir We should with great Readiness and Submission have obey’d your Honour’s Commands, in Forbearing to publish the two Letters from Sir Thomas Robinson, of July the…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, March 23, 1755
Philada. March 23. 1755 Dear Sir, This only serves to cover a Bill of Exchange for Twenty Pounds Sterling, drawn on Alexander Grant Esqr. by Mary Steevens. I send it…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, April 3, 1755
Philada. April 3. 55 Dear Brother Your Commissioner or Agent Mr. Quincey has done Wonders here. 2 He has executed his Commission extreamly well, and obtained yesterday a Vote for…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Fothergill, April 6, 1755
Philada. April 6. 1755 Dear Sir I am but just return’d from a long Journey, having been absent near [six months]. I find your Favour of Novr. [ I ,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, April 13, 1755
Annapolis, April 13. 1755 Sunday My dear Child We got well over here last Night about 8 aClock. 6 I believe I shall not return the same Road with the…
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Benjamin Franklin to Susanna Wright, April 28, 1755
Monday morning. [April 28, 1755] 5 Dear Madam I thought from the first, that your Proposal of calling the several Townships together, was very judicious. I was only at a…
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Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, May 18, 1755
Sunday. [May 18? 1755] Sir: I imagine that a Line from your Honour to the Speaker and Committee, recommending the Affair of the Forage to them, is all that is…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, May 22, 1755
Philada. May 22. 1755 Sir, Mr. Norris not being in Town, your Excellency’s Letter of the 14th Instant per Express, was delivered to me. 7 I immediately conven’d the Committee,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Edward Shippen, May 24, 1755
Philada. May 24. 1755 Sir By the Governor’s Direction I issued the inclos’d Advertisement. 4 The Bearers, John Laverty, and Charles Coleman, have agreed to go and work on the…