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Joseph Breintnall to Peter Collinson, November 7, 1732
Philada. 9br. 7th [November 7], 1732 Sir Your Goodness in assisting Mr. Hopkinson in the Choice and Purchase of our Books, and the valuable Present you have so generously made…
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Letters to Peter Collinson
Peter Collinson may refer to:Peter Collinson (botanist) (1694-1768), English scientist and horticulturalist Peter Collinson (1936-1980), film director Pseudonym used by Dashiell Hammett, derived from commonly used stage name 'Peter Collins' meaning 'nobody', Peter Collinson therefore meaning 'Nobody's Son'
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42 letters
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, March 28, 1747
Philadelphia, March 28, 1747 Sir, Your kind present of an electric tube, with directions for using it, has put several of us 1 on making electrical experiments, in which we…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, May 25, 1747
Philada. May 25. 1747 2 Sir In my last 3 I informed you that In pursuing our Electrical Enquiries, we had observ’d some particular Phaenomena, which we lookt upon to…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, July 28, 1747
Philada. July 28. 1747 1 Sir The inclosed is a Copy of my last, which went by the Governour’s Vessel: since which we have received, by Mesnard and Ouchterlony, Hill’s…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, August 14, 1747
Philada. Augt. 14. 1747 Sir I have lately written two long Letters to you on the Subject of Electricity, one by the Governor’s Vessel, the other per Mesnard. 4 On…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, October 18, 1748
Philada. Oct. 18. 1748 Sir I have receiv’d your several Favours of April 1. June 2. June 14 and Augt. 20, and some others, 7 with all the Books and…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, April 29, 1749
Philada. Apl. 29. 1749 3 Sir I now send you some 4 Further Experiments and Observations in Electricity made in Philadelphia 1748. viz. §1. There will be the same Explosion…
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James Logan to Peter Collinson, February 28, 1750
Stenton 12 mo [February] 28 1749/50 Dear Peter I have Spent most of this day for the first time with thy friend Kalm accompanied with B. Franklin, and I know…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, March 2, 1750
[March 2, 1750] 1 I was very much pleased with some ingenious papers in the late Transactions on the subject of electricity. 2 There is something however in the experiments…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, July 27, 1750
Philada. July 27. 1750 Sir Mr. Watson I believe wrote his Observations on my last Paper in Haste; 2 without having first well considered the Experiments related in §17 *…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, July 29, 1750
Philada. July 29 1750 Sir As you first put us on Electrical Experiments by sending to our Library-Company a Tube with Directions how to use it; and as our honourable…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, February 4, 1751
Philada. Feb. 4. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I receiv’d yours of Oct. 4. via New England, 9 with the Account of what you have laid out on Books and Mathematical…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, May 21, 1751
Philada. May 21. 1751 Dear Sir Budden is arrived, and every thing you sent per him come safe to hand. Both the Library-Company and the Academy are exceedingly oblig’d to…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, June 29, 1751
Philadelphia June 29: 1751 Sir In Capt. Waddels Account * of the Effects of Lightning on his Ship, I could not but take Notice of the large Comazants (as he…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, January 1, 1752
[1752?] 4 Sir, I am glad the perusal of the magical squares afforded you any amusement. I now send you the magical circle. Its properties, besides those mentioned in my…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, October 1, 1752
[October, 1752] 2 As you tell me our friend Cave is about to add some later experiments to my pamphlet, 3 with the Errata , 4 I send a coppy…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, January 1, 1753
[1753?] With regard to the Germans, I think Methods of great tenderness should be used, and nothing that looks like a hardship be imposed. Their fondness for their own Language…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, May 9, 1753
Philadelphia May 9th. 1753 Sir I received your Favour of the 29th. August last 3 and thank you for the kind and judicious remarks you have made on my little…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, June 26, 1753
Newhaven in Connecticut June 26. 1753 Dear Friend I received a Letter from you on the Road hither, with one of the supplemental Papers on Electricity; and a Letter from…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, September 1, 1753
Philadelphia, September 1753. 1 In my former Paper on this Subject, wrote first in 1747, enlarged and sent to England in 1749, 2 I considered the Sea as the grand…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, November 23, 1753
Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1753 Dear Friend, In my last, via Virginia, I promised to send you per next ship, a small philosophical pacquet: But now having got the materials (old…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, April 18, 1754
April 18th. 1754 Since September last, having been abroad on two long Journeys, 3 and otherwise much engag’d, I have made but few Observations on the positive and negative State…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, May 28, 1754
Philada: 28th May. 1754 Dear Sir. I had at length the pleasure of hearing from you per the Myrtilla that brought me yours of the 26th. Janry. 7 with which…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, July 29, 1754
Philada. July 29. 1754 Dear Sir, I am just return’d from Albany, where were Commissioners from seven Provinces to treat with the Indians of the Six Nations. I suppose the…