Peter Collinson to Benjamin Franklin, February 5, 1750
Londn. february 5: 1749/50 I have so many Obligations to my kind Friend, that I dedicated a time to Visit all the Booksellers in London to search for foreign Electrical…
Londn. february 5: 1749/50 I have so many Obligations to my kind Friend, that I dedicated a time to Visit all the Booksellers in London to search for foreign Electrical…
11 [January] 12th [1750] My Esteemed Friend I wrote to him to come up hither next first day if the weather was good Seeing while the Assembly Sits I can…
Jan. 8th [1750] My Friend B.F. If there be any convenient room left, Since my eldest Son 6 has rejected the Offer, I am willing my name Should be inserted…
10br [December] 17 [1749] My Friend I Send him his borrowed Praeceptor. I thought to have bought that and Turnbull for my Son who is at home with me and…
10br [December] 13 [1749] My Friend I wrote to him 1 that Lewis Evans has been here yesterday to advise of T. Godfrey’s Decease 2 which I supposed had prevented…
[November, 1749] I receiv’d by the last opportunity from New York the Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Pensylvania. I have read it with much pleasure and heartily…
8br [October] 6th [1749] My friend B Fr I absolutely forgot to mention what I principally intended yesterday. Thy telling me what were the most likely paper Mills to Supply…
Lond Septr 14t 1749 Respected friend I was unwilling to loose the Opertunity per Cap. Rice—So in 5 or 6 Days time I ordred all the Books to your Order…
7br. [September] 13. 49 My Friend B F I received thine of Yesterdays date this day about II but do not believe that discourse of Doctor Frees explains the Discourse…
[Quebec, August 6, 1749] I have found more learned Men in Canada, than I imagined had been in all America. The Jesuits in general excel in several Parts of Learning;…