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Benjamin Franklin to John Perkins, August 13, 1752
Philadelphia, Aug. 13, 1752 Sir, I received your favour of the 3d instant. 7 Some time last winter I procured from one of our physicians an account of the number…
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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 William Strahan, September 1, 1752
Philada. Sept. 1. 1752 Dear Sir, This is only to enclose a second Bill for £20 Sterling, drawn on Alexr Grant Esqr per Mrs. Mary Stevens. 5 I am, Yours…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, September 14, 1752
Philada. Sept. 14. 1752 ns. Dear Sir, When I had read your Favour of May the 14th. 6 I resolved to read and consider more carefully Sir Isaac Newton’s Optics,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Edward Mecom, September 14, 1752
Philada. Sept. 14. 1752, ns. 1 Dear Brother and Sister Benny sail’d from hence this Day two Weeks, and left our Capes the Sunday following. 2 They are seldom above…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, October 1, 1752
[October, 1752] 2 As you tell me our friend Cave is about to add some later experiments to my pamphlet, 3 with the Errata , 4 I send a coppy…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, November 16, 1752
Philada. Nov. 16. 1752 Dear Sir Your Favours of Augt. 26. with the Books for the Library Company, &c. came safe to hand; 2 and all turn out right; excepting…
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Benjamin Franklin to Edward Mecom, November 30, 1752
Philadelphia, November 30, 1752 Dear Brother and Sister, I congratulate you on the news of Benny’s arrival, for whom I had been some time in pain. 8 That you may…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, December 8, 1752
Philada. Dec. 8. 1752 Dear Brother Reflecting yesterday on your Desire to have a flexible Catheter, a Thought struck into my Mind how one might possibly be made: And lest…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, December 19, 1752
Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 1752 Dear Sir, I received your affectionate letter of the 1st. 6 and am surprised to find that my letters do not of late get to your…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, January 1, 1753
[1753?] With regard to the Germans, I think Methods of great tenderness should be used, and nothing that looks like a hardship be imposed. Their fondness for their own Language…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, January 1, 1753
[1753?] 3 [ Missing ] Riding offend the Part, and occasion small Ulcers. The Bougie or Wax Candle I have heard is excellent in such Cases. But whether it be…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Alexander, January 1, 1753
[1753?] 4 Suppose a tube of any length open at both ends, and containing a moveable wire of just the same length, that fills its bore. If I attempt to…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, January 2, 1753
Philada. Jan. 2. 1753 Dear Brother Yours of the 12th past 8 gave me a great deal of Pleasure, as it informed me that you are better and have reason…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Perkins, February 4, 1753
Philada. Feb. 4. 1753 Dear Sir I ought to have wrote to you long since, in Answer to yours of Oct. 16. concerning the Water Spout: 3 But Business partly,…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, February 28, 1753
Philada. Feb. 28. 1753 Dear Sir, The enclos’d is a Copy of a Letter and some Papers I received lately from a Friend, of which I have struck off Fifty…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, February 28, 1753
Philada. Feb. 28. 1753 Dear Sir I return you herewith Professor Kanster’s Remarks. 2 As far as I am able to judge, the Translation is just, and your Answer a…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jehu Curtis, March 15, 1753
Philada. March 15. 1753 Sir, We send herewith all the Bills in a Trunk, containing as follows 5 In the above, it is to be observed, that there are 100…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, April 12, 1753
Philada. April 12. 1753 Sir I have shipt 18 Glass Jarrs in Casks well pack’d, on board Capt. Branscombe for Boston. 6 of them are for you, the rest I…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, April 12, 1753
Philada. April 12.1753 Dear Sir I received your Favour of March 20. and a subsequent one without Date, containing the Description of Lord Macclesfield’s Mural Quadrant. 1 No Vessel has…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, April 12, 1753
Philada. April 12. 1753 Dear Sir I received your Favour of March 26. 8 and thank you for communicating to me, the very ingenious Letter from your Friend Mr. Todd,…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Smith, April 19, 1753
Philada. April 19. 1753 Sir I received your Favour of the 11th Instant, with your new Piece on Education, 8 which I shall carefully peruse; and give you my Sentiments…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, May 3, 1753
Philada. May 3. 1753. Dear Sir, I received your Essay last Post, and my Presses being at present engag’d in some publick Work that will not admit of Delay, I…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Smith, May 3, 1753
Philada. May 3. 1753 Sir Mr. Peters has just now been with me, and we have compar’d Notes on your new Piece. 6 We find nothing in the Scheme of…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, May 9, 1753
Philadelphia May 9th. 1753 Sir I received your Favour of the 29th. August last 3 and thank you for the kind and judicious remarks you have made on my little…