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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Pownall, August 1, 1756
[August? 1756] 5 I have some Suspicions that one OFarrel, an Irish Roman Catholick, may possibly be the Writer of those Letters, by the account I remember to have heard…
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Unknown to William Smith Wright, November 20, 1862
Nashville, November 20, 1862. Major-General WRIGHT, Oincinnati : I will give you Brigadier-General Rousseau for Louisville, if you will send Boyle to Bowling Green. Reason: Rousseau has a predisposition to…
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Pennsylvania Assembly to William Denny, August 31, 1756
[August 31, 1756] May it please the Governor , We look upon the Royal Approbation of the Governor’s Appointment, at this critical Time, as a Mark of the paternal Regard…
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Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, August 26, 1756
Philada. Augt. 26. 1756 Dear [Katy] I receiv’d your very agreable Line [of] the 2d. Inst. 9 in which you tell me you would write me a long Letter, but…
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Charles Francis Adams to William H. Seward, March 30, 1865
Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward No. 914.] Legation of the United States, London, March 30, 1865. Sir: I have the honor to transmit a copy of a resolution passed at…
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William Parsons to Benjamin Franklin, August 25, 1756
Easton Augt. 25. 1756 Dear Sir The inclosed is the Copy of a Bill which I had given over for lost as Mr. Kilbey 4 protested it the next Fall…
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Charles Francis Adams to William H. Seward, March 29, 1865
Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward No. 909.] Legation of the United States, London, March 29, 1865. Sir: A telegram in the following words has just been received by me from…
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Philadelphia City Regiment to William Denny, August 23, 1756
[August 23? 1756] 2 To the Honourable William Denny , Esq; Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, The Address of the…
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Pennsylvania Assembly to William Denny, August 23, 1756
[August 23, 1756] To the Honourable William Denny, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, The Address of the…
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Unknown to R. S. Granger, November 20, 1862
Nashville, November 20, 1862. General R. S. GRANGER, Bowling Green, Ky. : The general commanding directs you to prepare a regiment to move down to Mitchellsville to-morrow, to relieve the…
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Benjamin Franklin to George Washington, August 19, 1756
Philada. Augt. 19. 1756 Sir I have your Favours of July 23. and Aug. 3. but that you mention to have wrote per Mr. Balfour, is not come to hand.…
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William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, March 27, 1865
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams No. 1326.] Department of State, Washington, March 27, 1865. Sir: Since closing my circular of this date, we have received despatches from Lieutenant General Grant…
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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Pownall, August 19, 1756
Philada. Aug. 19. 1756 Sir I have done my self the Honour to write to you twice since my Return, relating to the propos’d Road; 6 but have as yet…
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Henry W. Halleck to William Starke Rosecrans, November 19, 1862
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 19, 1862. Maj. Gen. W. S. ROSECRANS, Nashville, Tenn. : Bruce has been ordered. I hope rebels will fight in Tennessee, but doubt it, unless it bein…
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David Colden to Benjamin Franklin, August 12, 1756
August 12th. 1756 Sir You oblidged me very much by communicating your Electrical Experiments made in pursuance of those by Mr. Canton: 8 I shall think myself fully rewarded for…
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William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, March 25, 1865
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams No. 1322.] Department of State, Washington, March 25, 1865. Sir: We learn from our consul at Liverpool that the pirate Shenandoah, having departed on some…
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Robert Charles to Pennsylvania Assembly Committee of Correspondence, August 12, 1756
London 12th. Augt. 1756. Gentlemen We have lately received Mr. Franklin’s Letter Dated from New York the 4th. of last month 8 with the Several Papers therein referred to, and…
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Charles Francis Adams to William H. Seward, March 24, 1865
Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward No. 908.] Legation of the United States, London, March 24, 1865. Sir: There was no bag received by the China, so that the legation is…
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Provincial Commissioners to Robert Hunter Morris, August 12, 1756
Philadelphia Augt. 12. 1756 Sir Your Honour having in your Letter of Yesterday to the Commissioners 5 recommended sundry Articles of Expence, and the advancing of Money on several Occasions,…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Shirley, July 1, 1756
[July 1756] Sir It might be of use to me with my Constituents, the Postmasters General in England, to whom I understand I am misrepresented as disaffected to the King’s…