Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, August 9, 1750
Philada. Augt. 9. 1750 Revd. Sir At my Return home I found your Favour of June the 28th. with the Bishop of Cloyne’s Letter enclos’d, 4 which I will take…
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
Philada. Augt. 9. 1750 Revd. Sir At my Return home I found your Favour of June the 28th. with the Bishop of Cloyne’s Letter enclos’d, 4 which I will take…
Philadelphia, August 23, 1750 Dear Sir, We received your favour of the 16th instant. 3 Mr. Peters will hardly have time to write to you per this post, and I…
Philada. Sept. 13. 1750 Dear Sir I am sorry to hear of your Illness: If you have not been us’d to the Fever and Ague, let me give you one…
Philada. Oct. 25, 1750 Rev. Sir, Enclosed I return your Noetica as you desired, that you may add or alter what you think fit before it goes to the Press,…
Philada. Nov. 22. 1750 Dear Sir You are very obliging in your Compliments on my Sketch of the English School; 8 But I find ’tis deficient in the main Thing;…
Philada. Jan. 9. 1750, 1 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of the 14th past, 2 with the Noetica, which I shall immediately put to press, for I think it…
Philada. July 11. 1751 Dear Sir, I receiv’d your Favours of June [  and] July 4. 6 I am sorry for the Faults in the I[ntroduction] and shall endeavour to…
Philada. Dec. 24. 1751 Dear Sir I received your Favour of the 11th Inst. 3 and thank you for the Hint you give of the Omission in the Idea. The…
Philada. July 2. 52 Reverend Sir I have sent you via New York 24 of your Books, bound as those I sent you per Post. The Remainder of the 50…
Philada. Oct. 27. 1753 Dear Sir I herewith send you Twelve of the Noetica’s. Ten are bound as you desired; which are all I have of that best Paper, the…
Philada. Dec. 13. 1753 Dear Sir, I received your Favour of the 5th Inst. and thank you for your kind Congratulations. 8 I wrote to you sometime since, and sent…
Philada. April 15. 1754 Dear Sir When I return’d from Maryland in February last, I found your Favour of Jany. 1. 7 but having mislaid it soon after, I defer’d…