Giambatista Beccaria to Benjamin Franklin, May 20, 1771
Turin 20. May 1771 I thank you, most excellent Sir, for the exact description of your new and really harmonious harpsichord with glasses, which you have sent me (to you…
Turin 20. May 1771 I thank you, most excellent Sir, for the exact description of your new and really harmonious harpsichord with glasses, which you have sent me (to you…
Boston, 17th may 1771. Sir I Received your kind favour of the 5 febr. and am verry Glad to hear that you and Coz. Sally Were Well and it adds…
Cravenstreet May 17. 1771 Sir Being greatly hurried in preparing for my Journey, I have barely had time to write the enclos’d. 1 I cannot find M. Allamand’s Paper: But…
London, May 17. 1771 Dear Sir, It is long since I have had the Pleasure of hearing from you. I hope your Health continues, and that your valuable Life will…
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Philada. April 23. 1771 Dear Sir This will be deliverd to you by Mr. Nicholas Biddle, to whom I wish to render acceptable Service, not so much from a personal…
Pool April 23d 1771 Dear Sir I received yours by the last post—and return you a thousand thanks for the money you are so kind as to Alow me which…
London, April 22. 1771 Sir, I duly received your Favours of the 4th. of October and the 17th. of November. It gave me Pleasure to hear, that tho’ the Merchants…
[April 21, 1771 1 ] In Compliance with that promise that I had the honor to make you when I was about leaving London, I now assume the Liberty of…
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…