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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, July 16, 1747
Philada. July 16. 1747 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of the 4th Instant. 5 I ought before this Time to have acknowledg’d the Receipt of the Book, which came…
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Letters to Jared Eliot
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, February 13, 1750
Philada. Feb. 13. 1749, 50 Dear Sir You desire to know my Thoughts about the N.E. Storms beginning to Leeward. 8 Some Years since there was an Eclipse of the…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25. 1750 Dear Sir, I ought to have inform’d you sooner that we got well home, and should have enquir’d after your Health as we left you in…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, September 12, 1751
Philada. Sept. 12. 1751 Dear Sir, I receiv’d your Favour of last Month, with the 12 Essays. 9 Sometime since, I mention’d to you a Method of increasing Dung by…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, December 10, 1751
Philada. Dec. 10. 1751 Dear Sir The Rector of our Academy Mr. Martin, came over into this Country on a Scheme for making Potash in the Russian Method: 1 He…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, December 24, 1751
Philada. Dec. 24. 1751 Dear Sir, I wrote you at large per My Son, in answer to your former Favours, 8 and sent you an Extract of Mr. Collinson’s Letter,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, February 11, 1752
Philadelphia, Feb. 11. 1752 Dear Sir I received your Favour 3 per my Son, and return my Thanks for your kind Entertainment of him at your House. I delivered yours…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, December 19, 1752
Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 1752 Dear Sir, I received your affectionate letter of the 1st. 6 and am surprised to find that my letters do not of late get to your…
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Jonathan Todd to Jared Eliot, March 6, 1753
East Guilford, March. 6. Anno Domi 1753 Revd and Dear Sir, I number it among the fortunate Occurrences of my Life that I have been indulged an Interest in your…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, April 12, 1753
Philada. April 12. 1753 Dear Sir I received your Favour of March 26. 8 and thank you for communicating to me, the very ingenious Letter from your Friend Mr. Todd,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, May 3, 1753
Philada. May 3. 1753. Dear Sir, I received your Essay last Post, and my Presses being at present engag’d in some publick Work that will not admit of Delay, I…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, August 31, 1755
Philada. Augt. 31. 1755 Dear Friend I have been employ’d almost all this Summer in the Service of our unfortunate Army, and other publick Affairs, that have brought me greatly…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, September 1, 1755
Philada. Sept. 1. 1755. Dear Sir I wrote to you yesterday, 4 and now I write again. You will say, It can’t rain, but it pours: For I not only…