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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, June 26, 1755
Philada. June 26. 1755 Dear Friend Mr. Bartram brings a Box to my House, which has a little Vacancy in it; so I put in my Philosophical Pacquet, which I…
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Deborah Franklin to Peter Collinson, April 30, 1755
Philada. Apl. 30. 1755 Sir Mr. Franklin is from home, and can not have by this Conveyance an Opportunity of answering your Favours by the last Ships. I have forwarded…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, December 29, 1754
Boston, Dec. 29. 1754 Dear Sir I wrote a few Lines by a Vessel that went from hence about 2 Weeks since, acknowledging the Receipt of your several Favours of…
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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…
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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…