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Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Franklin, April 13, 1738
April 13. 1738 Honour’d Father and Mother 5 I have your Favour of the 21st of March 6 in which you both seem concern’d lest I have imbib’d some erroneous…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 1, 1737
[1737?] Having read the Chapter on Moral Good or Virtue, 5 with all the Attention I am Capable of, amidst the many little Cares that Continually infest me, I shall,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Henry Price, November 28, 1734
Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1734 Dear Brother Price, I am glad to hear of your recovery. I hoped to have seen you here this Fall, agreeable to the expectation you were…
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Benjamin Franklin to Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, November 28, 1734
Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1734 9 Right Worshipful Grand Master and Most Worthy and Dear Brethren, We acknowledge your favor of the 23d of October past, and rejoice that the Grand…
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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Penn, May 18, 1734
Honorable Thos. Penn Esq. Dr. 9
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Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Read, April 11, 1734
[April 11, 1734] This Indenture made the Eleventh day of April in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God…
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Benjamin Franklin to Library Company of Philadelphia Subscribers, March 25, 1732
March 25th 1732. The Directors, in Town, met with the Treasurer and Secretary at Nicholas Scull’s, as was agreed at last Meeting, B. Franklin having sent a Messenger about with…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, June 19, 1731
Philadelphia, June 19, 1731 5 Dear Sister, Yours of May 26, I received with the melancholy news of the death of sister Deavenport, a loss, without doubt, regretted by all…
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Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Davenport, June 1, 1730
[June? 1730] 6 Dear Sister, Your kind and affectionate Letter of May the 15th, was extreamly agreeable to me; and the more so, because I had not for two Years…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jane Franklin, January 6, 1727
Philadelphia, January 6, 1726–7 Dear Sister, I am highly pleased with the account captain Freeman 5 gives me of you. I always judged by your behaviour when a child that…