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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Ingersoll, December 11, 1762
Philada. Dec. 11. 1762 Dear Sir I thank you for your kind Congratulations. 3 It gives me Pleasure to hear from an old Friend, it will give me much more…
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Benjamin Franklin to Elias, Jr Boudinot, December 11, 1762
[December 11, 1762] I thank you for your kind congratulations on my return to my family and country. It gives me great pleasure to hear that you are married and…
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Benjamin Franklin to Caleb Whitefoord, December 9, 1762
Philada. Dec. 9. 1762 9 Dear Sir, I thank you for your kind Congratulations on my Son’s Promotion and Marriage. If he makes a good Governor and a good Husband…
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Benjamin Franklin to Edward Nairne, December 8, 1762
Philada. Dec. 8, 1762 Mr. Nairne, I forget whether I paid you for the Magnet. Let me know. If you can make a Thermometer agreable to the enclos’d Directions, please…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Fothergill, December 8, 1762
Philada. Dec. 8. 1762 Dear Doctor, I arrived here the first of last Month, and had the Happiness after so long an Absence of finding my little Family well. The…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, December 7, 1762
Philada. Dec. 7. 1762 Dear Friend, I wrote you some time since 8 to acquaint you with my Arrival, and the kind Reception I met with from my old and…
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, December 7, 1762
Philada. Dec. 7. 1762 Dear Friend, I arrived here the first of last Month, and had the great Happiness, after so long Absence, to find my little Family well, and…
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Benjamin Franklin to Richard H. Jackson, December 6, 1762
Philada. Dec. 6. 1762 Dear Sir, I have already wrote to you via New York, but hear my Letter did not reach the Pacquet; so this may come first to…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, December 2, 1762
Philada. Dec. 2. 1762 Dear Straney, As good Dr. Hawkesworth 2 calls you, to whom my best Respects. I got home well the 1st. of November, and had the Happiness…
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Benjamin Franklin to Richard H. Jackson, December 2, 1762
Philada. Dec. 2. 1762 Dear Sir, I arrived here well on the 1st. ultimo and had the Pleasure to find all false that Dr. Smith had reported about the Diminution…