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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, July 29, 1750
Philada. July 29 1750 Sir As you first put us on Electrical Experiments by sending to our Library-Company a Tube with Directions how to use it; and as our honourable…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, July 27, 1750
Philada. July 27. 1750 Sir Mr. Watson I believe wrote his Observations on my last Paper in Haste; 2 without having first well considered the Experiments related in §17 *…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, June 28, 1750
Philada. June 28. 1750 Sir I wrote a Line to you last Post, and sent you some Electrical Observations and Experiments. You formerly had those Papers of mine out of…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, June 2, 1750
Philada. June 2. 1750 Dear Sir The Person from whom you had the Power of Attorney to receive a Legacy, was born in Holland, and at first call’d Aletta Crell;…
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Benjamin Franklin to Abiah Franklin, April 12, 1750
Philada. April 12. 1750 Honoured Mother We received your kind Letter of the 2d Instant, 7 and are glad to hear you still enjoy such a Measure of Health, notwithstanding…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, March 2, 1750
[March 2, 1750] 1 I was very much pleased with some ingenious papers in the late Transactions on the subject of electricity. 2 There is something however in the experiments…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, February 17, 1750
[February 17, 1750] I send Whiston’s Life. 8 He seems to me to have been a man of great industry and little prudence. I have been lame these two weeks…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, February 13, 1750
Philada. Feb. 13. 1749, 50 Dear Sir You desire to know my Thoughts about the N.E. Storms beginning to Leeward. 8 Some Years since there was an Eclipse of the…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, February 13, 1750
Philada. Feb. 13. 1749, 50 Sir I receiv’d your very kind Letter relating to my Proposals for the Education of our Youth, and return you the Thanks of the Gentlemen…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 29, 1750
Monday Jany 29. 1750 Sir Enclosed I send you a Copy of the Constitution of the Academy. Your agreeing to be one of the Trustees gave great pleasure to all…