Letter
Benjamin Franklin to William Bradford, May 16, 1775
Wednesday PM. May 16. [1775] Dear Sir, I have just now been urged to apply to you in behalf of a Stranger who is suppos’d to have spoken some disrespectful…
Topic
Letters about Science
5,751 lettersLetter
Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, May 15, 1775
Philada. May 15, 1775 My dear Lord, I arrived here well the 5th. after a pleasant Passage of 6 Weeks. I met with a most cordial Reception, I should say…
Letter
Benjamin Franklin to Edmund Burke, May 15, 1775
Philada. May 15. 75 Dear Sir, You will see by the Papers that Gen. Gage call’d his Assembly to propose Lord North’s pacific Plan, 7 but before they could meet…
Letter
Jane Mecom to Benjamin Franklin, May 14, 1775
Warrick 14 May 1775 My Ever Dear and much Honoured Brother God be Praised for bring you Saif back to America and soporting you throw such fatuges as I know…
Letter
Catharine Greene to Benjamin Franklin, May 14, 1775
[May 14, 1775] My Dear Dear Friend Welcom a Hundred times Welcom to our once happy Land. Are you in Health and allow me to ask you the old question…
Letter
Pennsylvania Assembly to Benjamin Franklin, May 9, 1775
May 9, 1775. Gentlemen , The Trust reposed in you, is of such a Nature, and the Modes of executing it, may be so diversified in the Course of your…
Letter
Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, May 8, 1775
Philada. May 8. 1775. Monday Dear Sir, I arrived here on Friday Evening, and the next morning was unanimously chosen by the General Assembly a Delegate for the ensuing Congress,…
Letter
Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, May 8, 1775
Monday May 8. 75 My dear Friend I am much oblig’d by your kind Congratulations. I am concern’d at your Resolution of quitting public Life at a time when your…
Letter
Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, January 1, 1759
[1759–62, 1764–75?] Dear Sir, I have perus’d the Parts you put into my Hands of the new Work on Commerce, &c. and must own myself extreamly pleas’d with it. It…
Letter
Benjamin Franklin to William B. Franklin, March 22, 1775
On board the Pensylvania Packet Capt. Osborne, bound to Philadia. March 22. 1775. Dear Son Having now a little Leisure for Writing, I will endeavour, as I promised you, to…