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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, February 17, 1750
[February 17, 1750] I send Whiston’s Life. 8 He seems to me to have been a man of great industry and little prudence. I have been lame these two weeks…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 29, 1750
Monday Jany 29. 1750 Sir Enclosed I send you a Copy of the Constitution of the Academy. Your agreeing to be one of the Trustees gave great pleasure to all…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 20, 1750
[January 20, 1750] The magical squares, how wonderful soever they may seem, are what I cannot value myself upon, but am rather ashamed to have it known I have spent…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, December 17, 1749
[December 17, 1749] I send the Dialogues on Education, which I ascribed to Hutcheson, but am since informed they were wrote by Mr. Forbes, Professor of Philosophy in the University…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, December 16, 1749
[December 16, 1749] I send you herewith a new French piece on electricity, 5 in which you will find a journal of experiments on a paralytic person. I also send…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, September 18, 1749
[September 18, 1749] For the reason you mention, I am of the same opinion, that Dr. Free has not considered the Picts’ language as you have done, but imagines with…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, September 12, 1749
Philada. Sept. 12. 49 [ First part missing ] [Ad]vertisement, by which you will see the Language of the Picts is now under Consideration at home. 8 If I had…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, July 4, 1749
July 4. 49 Sir I sent word today to N. Holland, 7 that you desired to see him, and offer’d him my Horse. He sent me word, he could get…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, May 19, 1749
[May 19, 1749] I send you the third and fourth volumes of the Harleian Miscellany, 2 and also what I have of Mattaire’s Classics. I think I promised to send…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, November 29, 1748
Philada. Nov. 29. 1748 Sir I received your Favour of the 9th Inst. 2 with the Voyage in Search of the N.W. Passage; I have been several Times since at…