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Giambatista Beccaria to Benjamin Franklin, May 20, 1771
Turin 20. May 1771 I thank you, most excellent Sir, for the exact description of your new and really harmonious harpsichord with glasses, which you have sent me (to you…
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Samuel Franklin to Benjamin Franklin, May 17, 1771
Boston, 17th may 1771. Sir I Received your kind favour of the 5 febr. and am verry Glad to hear that you and Coz. Sally Were Well and it adds…
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Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Smith, May 17, 1771
Cravenstreet May 17. 1771 Sir Being greatly hurried in preparing for my Journey, I have barely had time to write the enclos’d. 1 I cannot find M. Allamand’s Paper: But…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, May 17, 1771
London, May 17. 1771 Dear Sir, It is long since I have had the Pleasure of hearing from you. I hope your Health continues, and that your valuable Life will…
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Thomas Life to Benjamin Franklin, April 26, 1771
Preceding From Life to Franklin [2 February 1771] Next From Life to Franklin [11 November 1774] All All correspondence between Life and Franklin
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Joseph Galloway to Benjamin Franklin, April 23, 1771
Philada. April 23. 1771 Dear Sir This will be deliverd to you by Mr. Nicholas Biddle, to whom I wish to render acceptable Service, not so much from a personal…
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Elizabeth Empson to Benjamin Franklin, April 23, 1771
Pool April 23d 1771 Dear Sir I received yours by the last post—and return you a thousand thanks for the money you are so kind as to Alow me which…
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Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, April 22, 1771
London, April 22. 1771 Sir, I duly received your Favours of the 4th. of October and the 17th. of November. It gave me Pleasure to hear, that tho’ the Merchants…
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Charles Willson Peale to Benjamin Franklin, April 21, 1771
[April 21, 1771 1 ] In Compliance with that promise that I had the honor to make you when I was about leaving London, I now assume the Liberty of…
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Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, April 20, 1771
London, April 20. 1771 Dear Sir, It is an Age since I have heard from you. But the long-continu’d Easterly Winds have kept back all Ships from the Westward, and…
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Benjamin Franklin to William B. Franklin, April 20, 1771
London, April 20. 1771 Dear Son, It is long since I have heard from you. The last Packet brought me no Letter, and there are two Packets now due. It…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jeremiah Meyer, November 1, 1762
[Before April 20, 1771 2 ] Dr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Meyer, and prays him not to detain any longer the Picture from which he was to make…
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Joseph Priestley to Benjamin Franklin, April 19, 1771
Leeds, 19 Apr. 1771 Dear Sir I am glad that you have received your Comm Bonon . safe. 4 I thank you for the use of them, and think myself…
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Noble Wimberly Jones to Benjamin Franklin, March 7, 1771
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Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Sr Williams, March 5, 1771
London, March 5. 1771 Loving Cousin, I suppose Jonathan has told you that the Lottery is drawn, and your two new Tickets had the same Success as the former, viz.…
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Benjamin Franklin to Grace Williams, March 5, 1771
London, 5 March, 1771. Dear Cousin, I received your kind letter by your sons. 2 They are, I assure you, exceeding welcome to me; and they behave with so much…
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Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, March 5, 1771
London, March 5. 1771 Sir, I duly received your several Favours of Oct. 9. and December 13. inclosing Bills of Exchange, viz. which are paid and carried to the Credit…
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Noble Wimberly Jones to Benjamin Franklin, March 4, 1771
Savannah 4 March 1771. Revered Sir I take this oportunity to acquaint you that on the 22d. of last month our Assembly met with the same fate of that in…
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Theodorus Swaine Drage to Benjamin Franklin, March 2, 1771
March 2d. 1771 Dear Sir It is not from a want of a sense of the pleasure and Honour I have had in your long acquaintance and Friendship that I…
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Katherine French to Benjamin Franklin, March 1, 1771
Friday 1st. March. [1771] My dear Sir I return you my Thanks for the unquestionable proof you have given of your approbation, of the Work I sent you. I made…