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Harvey to William H. Seward, April 7, 1864
Mr. Harvey to Mr. Seward. No. 269.] Legation of the United States, Lisbon, April 7, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 129,…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, October 18, 1753
Philada. Oct. 18. 1753 Dear Sir I recollect that I promis’d to send you Dr. Brownrigg’s Treatise on Common Salt. 1 You will receive it herewith. I hope it may…
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ROBERT BAYMAN, United States Consul ad interim to James E. Harvey , United States Minister Resident at Lisbon, March 18, 1864
Mr. Bayman to Mr. Harvey Consulate of the United States, Madeira, March 18, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 14th instant) and beg to…
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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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Harvey to William H. Seward, March 24, 1864
[Extract.] Mr. Harvey to Mr. Seward. No. 268.] Legation of the United States, Lisbon, March 24, 1864, Sir: * * * * * I transmit also a circumstantial account of…
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Charles Woodmason to Benjamin Franklin, September 20, 1753
Cooper River, S. Carolina, Sept. 20, 1753 Let others muse on sublunary things, The rise of empires and the fall of kings; Thine is the praise, with bolder flight to…
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Harvey to William H. Seward, March 22, 1864
Mr. Harvey to Mr. Seward. No. 267.] Legation of the United States, Lisbon, March 22, 1864. Sir:A paragraph appeared in one of the principal papers to-day of which the following…
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Peter Collinson to Benjamin Franklin, September 15, 1753
Lond. Sept: 15: 1753 My Dear friend As no Ship will Sail from Hence in a Month or 3 Weeks I take this oppertunity to Send by the Way of…
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GEORGE HENRY PREBLE, Commander United States Navy to James E. Harvey , United States Minister Resident, Lisbon, Portugal, February 29, 1864
[Untitled] United States Sloop-of-war St. Louis, Funchal Roads, Madeira, February 29, 1864. Sir: The rebel steamer Florida, Morris commander, arrived here on the night before the last, reporting as eighteen…
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Yale College to Benjamin Franklin, September 12, 1753
[September 12? 1753] Praeses et Socii Academiae Yalensis in novo portu Connecticutensium in Nov-Anglia Omnibus has Literas perlecturis Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Cum Caius Benjamin Franklin Philadelphiensis, Armiger, Literaturae Politioris…