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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, February 28, 1749
Philada. Feby. 28. 1748–9 Our Friend Hall goes on exceedingly well: Has lately got a Daughter. 9
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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 Peter Collinson, April 29, 1749
Philada. Apl. 29. 1749 3 Sir I now send you some 4 Further Experiments and Observations in Electricity made in Philadelphia 1748. viz. §1. There will be the same Explosion…
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Benjamin Franklin to John G. Mitchell, April 29, 1749
Philada. Apl. 29. 1749 8 Sir Observations and Suppositions towards forming a new Hypothesis for explaining the several Phaenomena of Thunder Gusts. 9 §1. Non-Electrical 1 Bodies, that have Electric…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, April 29, 1749
Philada. April 29. 1749 Sir I suppose Mr. Hall will acquaint you that I have settled with him for those Things you sent me that were charg’d in his Invoice.…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, May 19, 1749
[May 19, 1749] I send you the third and fourth volumes of the Harleian Miscellany, 2 and also what I have of Mattaire’s Classics. I think I promised to send…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, July 3, 1749
Philadelphia, July 3, 1749 Dear Sir, I wrote to you very fully per Arthur concerning your affair with Mr. Read, 3 and shall have nothing to add on that subject…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, July 4, 1749
July 4. 49 Sir I sent word today to N. Holland, 7 that you desired to see him, and offer’d him my Horse. He sent me word, he could get…
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Benjamin Franklin to George Whitefield, July 6, 1749
Philadelphia, July 6, 1749 Dear Sir, Since your being in England, I have received two of your favours, and a box of books to be disposed of. 2 It gives…
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Benjamin Franklin to Abiah Franklin, September 7, 1749
Philadelphia, Sep. [7]. 1749 4 Honoured Mother, We received your kind Letter 5 by this Post, and are glad to hear you still continue to enjoy such a share of…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, September 12, 1749
Philada. Sept. 12. 49 [ First part missing ] [Ad]vertisement, by which you will see the Language of the Picts is now under Consideration at home. 8 If I had…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, September 18, 1749
[September 18, 1749] For the reason you mention, I am of the same opinion, that Dr. Free has not considered the Picts’ language as you have done, but imagines with…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, October 23, 1749
Philadelphia, October 23, 1749 Dear Sir, I hope before this can reach you your Parliament will have met and ordered payment of what has been so long due on account…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, December 16, 1749
[December 16, 1749] I send you herewith a new French piece on electricity, 5 in which you will find a journal of experiments on a paralytic person. I also send…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, December 17, 1749
[December 17, 1749] I send the Dialogues on Education, which I ascribed to Hutcheson, but am since informed they were wrote by Mr. Forbes, Professor of Philosophy in the University…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 20, 1750
[January 20, 1750] The magical squares, how wonderful soever they may seem, are what I cannot value myself upon, but am rather ashamed to have it known I have spent…
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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…
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 *…