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46,149 letters24 Juillet 1774 Milan dans la Lombardie Monsieur Voici 4 exemplairs du mon choix. Si je ne me flatte d’avoir fait une traduction elegante, j’espere du moins d’avoir rendu néttement…
London, July 22. 1774 Dear Sir, I received your Favour of May 14. with the very ingenious Oration you deliver’d at the Society, for which I thank you. The Bookseller…
London, July 22, 1774 6 My dear Child, I have had no Line from you by several late Opportunities: I flatter myself it is owing not to Indisposition, but to…
Manchester 5 July 18. 1774 Dear and honoured Sir I am thus far arrived on my Journey, and have met with every success I could possibly have expected. I have…
Perth Amboy July 5th: 1774 Sir I this day received a letter from Mr. Wilmot dated 30 March last wherein he says “before you receive this letter you will have…
[New York, July 3, 1774 7 ] [ First part missing 8 ] there is no foreseeing the Consequences which may result from such a Congress as is now intended…
London, June 30. 1774 Dear Friend I send you herewith a few Pamphlets which I request you to distribute among the Committee and others as you may think proper. The…
[May 7, 1774] [ First part missing ] have an Opportunity of passing the new One. All the rest of the 15 Bills passed the same Day, viz. Feb. 26.…
London, May 7. 1774 My dear Child It is now a very long time indeed since I have had the Pleasure of a Line from you. 5 I hope however…
Philadelphia 5th May 1774 Dear and Honoured Sir I venture to drop you a few Lines notwithstanding your Expectation of leaving England in all 1 this Month. I wrote you…
London, May 5. 1774 My dear Child, Our Family here is in great Distress. Poor Mrs. Hewson has lost her Husband, and Mrs. Stevenson her Son-in-law. He died last Sunday…
Hanover Square May 3d 1774 Dear Doctor. I send you an extract from Mr. Jacksons bill for the Vase Stove. He has charged me on another account for 13 C…
Philad. May 3d. 1774 Honoured Sir This is to let you know that Betsy and I are here on a Visit to my Mother, who, with all the Family are…
London, April 28. 1774 My dear Love, I hoped to have been on the Sea in my Return by this time, but find I must stay a few Weeks longer,…
London, April 28. 1774 Sir, I have written several Letters to you lately by different Conveyances, and sent you the Bills pass’d and about to be pass’d relating to our…
Craven Street, April 10, 1774. Dear Sir, In compliance with your request, I have endeavoured to recollect the circumstances of the American experiments I formerly mentioned to you, of raising…
London, April 7. 1774 Gentlemen, I thought Mr. Strahan had transmitted to you the Invoice with the Books by Falconer. 9 It is but yesterday he brought it to me,…
Preceding From Franklin to Colden [18 February 1774] All All correspondence between Franklin and Colden
London, April 2. 1774 Sir My last was of the 22d past, since which I have received none of your Favours. I mentioned that the Bill brought into Parliament for…
Cravenstreet, March 25. 1774 Gentlemen, The Bearer Mr. James Adair is well recommended to me from America, as a Person of Credit and Veracity, whose Accounts of what he has…