Letters about Founding Era

Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Colden, June 2, 1773

London, June 2. 1773. Dear Sir I received yours of April 7. inclosing Coningham and Nesbit’s Bill on D. Harvey & Co for £200 8 with which your Account is…

William Strahan to Benjamin Franklin, May 1, 1773

New Street Thursday Afternoon [May, 1773? 7 ] Dear Sir Dont forget your Appointment tomorrow at 3, or soon after. I send you herewith the 10th. Vol. of the Statutes;…

Edmé-Louis Daubenton to Benjamin Franklin, May 31, 1773

au jardin du Roy ce 31. may. [1773] M. Daubenton le jeune a l’honneur de presenter son hommage à Monsieur franklin et de l’assurer de son respect en lui envoyant…

Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, May 28, 1773

London, May 28 [-June 1]. 1773 Dear Sir, I have received your Favour of the 13th Instant with several Packets of the Sheets. I have examined more of them, and…

Daniel Wister to Benjamin Franklin, April 30, 1773

Philada: April 30th: 1773 Dear friend, You have undoubtedly been inform’d of my unhappy situation for three years past. I had engag’d too largely in business, contracted many bad debts,…

William B. Franklin to Benjamin Franklin, April 30, 1773

Philadelphia April 30th. 1773 Honoured Father, I wrote to you by Capt. All who left Town the day before Yesterday, and this morning I received a few Lines from you…

James Hunter to Benjamin Franklin, April 24, 1773

Philadelphia 24 [April, 1773] Honoured Sir I Received yours of the 10th of February, by which I was told to Draw upon you for eighty seven pounds ten shillings sterling,…

Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, April 23, 1773

Londres, 23 Avril 1773. Vous verrez par le papier ci-joint du Docteur Solander, que cette herbe (Poke-Weed) dans laquelle on a trouvé un remede spécifique du cancer, est précisément l’espece…

Jonathan Jr Williams to Benjamin Franklin, April 22, 1773

Thomas Cushing to Benjamin Franklin, April 22, 1773

Inclosed you have a number of the Pamphlets Containing the Governors Speaches and the Answers of the two Houses with which you may Accomodate some few of your Freinds. 1…