Benjamin Franklin to William Coleman, October 12, 1761

London, Oct. 12. 1761

Dear Sir,

I have received your obliging Favours of July 16. and Augt. 15. for which I thank you. 8

The Transit I think would not have appear’d at Philadelphia, if any body had been ready there to observe. 9 It is so far West, that Venus was off the Sun’s Disk before he rose there. I send you Ferguson’s Book on the Subject to which I was a Subscriber, and also a large Scheme of the Transit he has since presented to me. 1 At the next Meeting of the Society, which is in November, we shall have all the Observations laid before us, except the most remote, and I will immediately send you a Copy. 2

I have not yet heard that the Books sent the Library Company by Becket, 3 are got to Hand. Mr. Collinson sends a few, he tells me per this Ship. With the greatest Esteem, I am, Dear Friend Yours affectionately

B Franklin.