Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, April 11, 1757
New York, April 11. 1757 Dear Sir, I received the Exemplifications of the Royal Grant, Charter and Commissions at Bristol, and by the Post Copies of the two £100,000 Bills…
Joseph Lee Galloway was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965. From 2013 until his death, he worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He was also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers.
New York, April 11. 1757 Dear Sir, I received the Exemplifications of the Royal Grant, Charter and Commissions at Bristol, and by the Post Copies of the two £100,000 Bills…
N York, April 25. 1757 Dear Sir, The List of Servants is come to hand. 3 I suppose ’tis as compleat as it could at present be made, but it…
London, Sept. 6. 1758 Dear Sir I have been much in the Country this summer, travelling over great Part of the Kingdom, partly to recover my Health, and partly to…
London, Sept. 16. 1758 Dear Sir, I wrote you a few Lines on the 6th Inst. in which I omitted acknowledging the Receipt of your several Favours of April 17.…
London, Tuesday, Augst. 26. 1760 My Dear Friend, The Mail was made up and sent for Falmouth on Saturday last, so that whether this may reach you by that Conveyance…
London, April 14. 1767 Dear Sir I have before me your Favours of Jan. 11. and 14. Feb. 20. and 21. 8 I am glad the House thought fit to…
London, May 20. 1767 Dear Sir, I had no Line from you per last Packet. I hope you are well. We have been extreamly busy here lately in the Affair…
London, May 23. 1767 Dear Sir, I wrote to you a few days since via New York, 2 and purpose writing again by a Ship that sails from hence in…
London, Jan. 9, 1768. Dear Sir, I wrote to you via Boston and have little to add except to acquaint you that some changes have taken place since my last,…
London, Feb. 17. 1768. Dear Sir, In mine of Jan. 9. 8 I wrote to you that I believ’d notwithstanding the Clamor against America had been greatly increas’d by the…
London, April 16. 1768 Dear Sir, The March Packet is just arrived, and has brought me your Favour of the 10th of that Month, containing a strongly painted Description of…
London, July 2, 1768. Dear Sir, Since my last 5 nothing material has occurred here relating to American affairs, except the removal of Lord Clare from the head of the…
London, Jan. 9. 1769 Dear Sir, I have now before me your several Favours of Oct. 15, 17, and 20, and of Nov. 6. I am much oblig’d to the…
London, Jan. 29. 1769 Dear Friend, The within was written to go by Budden, then expected to sail every Day. 7 But as he still continues here, I now send…
London March 9. 1769 Dear Sir I wrote a few Lines to you per Packet, in which I mention’d that at a late Meeting of the Agents they had agreed…
London, March 21. 1769 Dear Sir Inclos’d is a Bill of Lading for the Telescope; I hope it will get safe to hand, and give Satisfaction. 7 I have not…
London, Jan. 11. 1770 Dear Sir, Since mine of the 9th. past, I have received your Favour of Nov. 8. with the Bill for £500. Wharton on Whitmore; for which…
London, June 26. 1770. Dear Sir, Since mine of the 11th. Instant per Packet, I am favoured with yours of May 16. viâ Bristol, acquainting me with what was like…
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…
London, Nov. 3, 1773. Sir, There is at present great quietness here, and no prospect that the war between the Turks and Russians will spread farther in Europe. 2 The…
London, Feb. 18, 1774. Dear Friend, I received your Favour of Nov. 10, inclosing a Bill of Exchange, Willing & Morris, on Errecart DelRio & Co. for £400. 9 and…
Oct. 12. 1774 Dear Sir, I wrote to you on the 1st Inst. per Capt. Cook; acquainting you with the Dissolution of the Parliament since which the Elections are going…
London, Feb. 25. 1775 Dear Friend, In my last per Falconer, I mention’d to you my showing your Plan of Union to Lords Chatham and Camden. 7 I now hear…
Monday May 8. 75 My dear Friend I am much oblig’d by your kind Congratulations. I am concern’d at your Resolution of quitting public Life at a time when your…