Tunbridge Wells, 7 Augt. 20. 1758 Dear Polley, My Son I know intended writing to you this Morning, so as to send per this Days Post; but sundry unexpected Hindrances…
Cravenstreet, Saturday Evening past 10. [1759] 7 At length I have found an Hour, in which I think I may chat with my dear good Girl; free from Interruption. The…
Craven Street, Friday, May 4, 1759. My dear Child, Hearing that you was in the Park last Sunday, I hop’d for the Pleasure of seeing you yesterday at the Oratorio…
London, Sept. 13. 1760 My dear Friend, I have your agreable Letter from Bristol, 4 which I take this first Leisure Hour to answer, having for some time been much…
[November? 1760] 1 My dear Friend It is, as you observed in our late Conversation, a very general Opinion, that all Rivers run into the Sea , or deposite their…
Cravenstreet July 7. 1761 This is just to acquaint my dear Polly, that her good Mama, Mr. and Mrs. Strahan, and her Friend Franklin, purpose to be at Bromley on…
Cravenstreet, Oct. 29. 61. My dear Polly’s good Mama bids me write two or three Lines by way of Apology for her so long omitting to write. She acknowledges the…
Monday morng. March 8. 62 Dear Polly Your good Mama has just been saying to me that she wonders what can possibly be the Reason she has not had a…
London, March 22, 1762. My dear Friend, I must retract the Charge of Idleness in your Studies, when I find you have gone thro’ the doubly difficult Task of reading…
Woodbridge, New Jersey, June 10. 1763 I wrote to my dear Friend’s good Mama to day, 4 and said I should hardly have time to write to you; but finding…
[June 15, 1765] 5 Mr. Franklin did not know of the Message this Morning till the Servant was gone; he has since been ready to beat Mrs. Stevenson for declining…
[1767–1770 4 ] [ First part missing ] and a Train of various Amusements daily interfering, I as continually put off Writing till to-morrow; when I receiv’d the second Letter,…
Paris, Sept. 14. 1767 Dear Polly I am always pleas’d with a Letter from you, and I flatter myself you may be sometimes pleas’d in receiving one from me, tho’…
[September 28, 1768] Diir Madam, Ði a abds̸eks̸ɥn iu meek to rektifɥiiŋ a aur alfabet, “ d hat it uil bi atended ui d h ink a anviniensiz and difikɥltiz,”…
[Nov., 1768?] 8 Dear Polly Inclos’d is a Letter from Mr. Coleman; it came under Cover of one to me, and the Seal of mine sticking to that of yours…
Craven street Jan 22. —70 Dear Polly, I received your Favour of Saturday early this Morning, and am as usual much obliged by the kind Readiness with which you have…
Thursday May 31. 70 Dear Polly I receiv’d your Letter early this Morning, and as I am so engag’d that I cannot see you when you come to-day, I write…
Wednesday P M. [before July 10, 1770 7 ] Dear Polly I send you a few of your Translations. 8 I did not put your Name as the Translator, (which…
Preston, Nov. 25. 1771. Dear Friend, I came to this Place on Saturday night right well and untir’d with a 70 miles Journey that day. I met with your and…
Birmingham, July 8. 72 Dear Polly I arrived here yesterday in my Return from the North. This Morning I had the Pleasure of receiving yours of the 6th. I am…
Philada. July 8. 1775 My dear Friend I thank you for your kind Letter of April 11th. It grieves me that the present Situation of publick Affairs, makes it not…
Paris, Jan. 26[–27]. 1777 Dear Polley I wrote a few Lines to you by Dr. B. and have since seen your Letter to Jona. by which I have the great…
Passy, Augt. 17. 1782 My dear good Child, I received your kind Letter by Dr Shuttleworth. 6 It always gives me great Pleasure to hear of the Welfare of you…
Passy, Jany. 8. 1783 My dear dear Friend, I sent you sometime since 11 Pamphlets of the same kind with the enclos’d, supposing, as I had heard them well spoken…