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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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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 Samuel Johnson, August 9, 1750
Philada. Augt. 9. 1750 Revd. Sir At my Return home I found your Favour of June the 28th. with the Bishop of Cloyne’s Letter enclos’d, 4 which I will take…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, August 23, 1750
Philadelphia, August 23, 1750 Dear Sir, We received your favour of the 16th instant. 3 Mr. Peters will hardly have time to write to you per this post, and I…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, September 13, 1750
Philada. Sept. 13. 1750 Dear Sir I am sorry to hear of your Illness: If you have not been us’d to the Fever and Ague, let me give you one…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, September 20, 1750
Philadelphia, 20 September, 1750 Dear Sister, I received yours the 11th instant, 6 with one enclosed for cousin Benny; but he, I suppose, is in Boston with you before this…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, September 27, 1750
Philada. Sept. 27. 1750 Dear Brother I received yours of the 17th Inst. with the Plan of Halifax for which I thank you. 9 Pray send me the Heads of…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, October 11, 1750
Philada. Oct. 11. 1750 Sir I have learnt by different hands, that Dr. Mitchel continues in a bad State of Health, 3 which I suppose obliges him to drop his…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25. 1750 Sir Enclos’d with this I send you all my Electrical Papers fairly transcrib’d, and I have as you desir’d examin’d the Copy and find it correct.…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25. 1750 Dear Sir, I ought to have inform’d you sooner that we got well home, and should have enquir’d after your Health as we left you in…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25, 1750 Rev. Sir, Enclosed I return your Noetica as you desired, that you may add or alter what you think fit before it goes to the Press,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, November 22, 1750
Philada. Nov. 22. 1750 Dear Sir You are very obliging in your Compliments on my Sketch of the English School; 8 But I find ’tis deficient in the main Thing;…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, December 6, 1750
Philada. Dec. 6. 1750 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of Augt. 31. per Mesnard, and Copy per Shirley who is just arrived. Mr. Joseph Crellius 2 is gone to…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, December 25, 1750
I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat. Two nights ago being about to kill a Turkey by the Shock from two large Glass…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, January 9, 1751
Philada. Jan. 9. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of the 14th past, 2 with the Noetica, which I shall immediately put to press, for I think it…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, February 4, 1751
Philada. Feb. 4. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I receiv’d yours of Oct. 4. via New England, 9 with the Account of what you have laid out on Books and Mathematical…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, February 4, 1751
Philada. Feb. 4. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I wrote you per Capt. Budden, who sail’d the Beginning of December, and sent you a Bill of Exchange on Jonathan Gurnel &…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Parker, March 20, 1751
Philadelphia, March 20, 1750/1 Dear Mr. Parker, I have, as you desire, read the Manuscript you sent me; and am of Opinion, with the publick-spirited Author, that securing the Friendship…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, May 21, 1751
Philada. May 21. 1751 Dear Sir Budden is arrived, and every thing you sent per him come safe to hand. Both the Library-Company and the Academy are exceedingly oblig’d to…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, June 28, 1751
Philada. June 28. 1751 Dear Sir, I receiv’d yours of March 26. 4 with the Books per Smith in good Order: And your Account, which agrees with mine except in…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, June 29, 1751
Philadelphia June 29: 1751 Sir In Capt. Waddels Account * of the Effects of Lightning on his Ship, I could not but take Notice of the large Comazants (as he…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, July 11, 1751
Philada. July 11. 1751 Dear Sir, I receiv’d your Favours of June [  and] July 4. 6 I am sorry for the Faults in the I[ntroduction] and shall endeavour to…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, July 19, 1751
Philadelphia, July 19, 1751 Dear Sir, This serves to cover the enclosed 3 and recommend the affair to your care. I have assured the gentlemen concerned that you will serve…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, September 5, 1751
Philada. Sept. 5. 1751 Sir, As you are curious in Electricity, I take the Freedom of introducing to you, my Friend Mr. Kinnersley, 8 who visits Boston with a compleat…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, September 12, 1751
Philada. Sept. 12. 1751 Dear Sir, I receiv’d your Favour of last Month, with the 12 Essays. 9 Sometime since, I mention’d to you a Method of increasing Dung by…