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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, November 23, 1753
Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1753 Dear Friend, In my last, via Virginia, I promised to send you per next ship, a small philosophical pacquet: But now having got the materials (old…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, November 16, 1753
[Philadelphia, November 16, 1753] I wrote to you via Bristol and desired you to bespeak some Letter and a Press for me. 7 I desired Mr. Hall to look out…
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James Bowdoin to Benjamin Franklin, November 12, 1753
Boston November 12. 1753 Dear Sir I received your Favour of the 18th Ult. 1 accompanied with Dr. Brownrigg’s Treatise on Salt which I shall comunicate to the Gentlemen you…
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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Clap, November 8, 1753
Philada. Nov. 8. 1753 Dear Sir, The first Intimation I find of the New Airpump, is in a Piece of Mr. Watson’s, read to the Royal Society, Feb. 20. 1752…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, October 27, 1753
Philada. Oct. 27 1753 Dear Sir, I have your Favour of June 27, 2 and am quite surpriz’d at the Conduct of Mr. Harris. He is return’d to Maryland as…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, October 27, 1753
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…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, October 25, 1753
Philada. Oct. 25. 1753 Dear Sir, This last Summer I have enjoy’d very little of the Pleasure of Reading or Writing. I made a long Journey to the Eastward, which…
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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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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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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…