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Benjamin Franklin to Abiah Franklin, April 12, 1750
Philada. April 12. 1750 Honoured Mother We received your kind Letter of the 2d Instant, 7 and are glad to hear you still enjoy such a Measure of Health, notwithstanding…
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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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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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George Whitefield to Benjamin Franklin, February 26, 1750
Plymouth, Feb. 26, 1750 My dear Mr. F[ranklin], Ever since I received your last kind letter, I have been endeavouring to redeem some time to answer it, but till now…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, February 17, 1750
[February 17, 1750] I send Whiston’s Life. 8 He seems to me to have been a man of great industry and little prudence. I have been lame these two weeks…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, February 13, 1750
Philada. Feb. 13. 1749, 50 Dear Sir You desire to know my Thoughts about the N.E. Storms beginning to Leeward. 8 Some Years since there was an Eclipse of the…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, February 13, 1750
Philada. Feb. 13. 1749, 50 Sir I receiv’d your very kind Letter relating to my Proposals for the Education of our Youth, and return you the Thanks of the Gentlemen…
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Peter Collinson to Benjamin Franklin, February 5, 1750
Londn. february 5: 1749/50 I have so many Obligations to my kind Friend, that I dedicated a time to Visit all the Booksellers in London to search for foreign Electrical…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 29, 1750
Monday Jany 29. 1750 Sir Enclosed I send you a Copy of the Constitution of the Academy. Your agreeing to be one of the Trustees gave great pleasure to all…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 20, 1750
[January 20, 1750] The magical squares, how wonderful soever they may seem, are what I cannot value myself upon, but am rather ashamed to have it known I have spent…