Whitehall June 1st: 1759. To the Right honourable the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council for Plantation Affairs. My Lords Pursuant to Your Lordship’s Order…
[17 May 1759.] Edward Delaval M.A and Fellow of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, 5 being personally known to us, and desirous of being elected into the Royal Society, we recommend…
May 9, 1759. Sir, While the public attention is so much turned towards America, every letter from thence that promises new information, is pretty generally read; it seems therefore the…
Craven Street, Friday, May 4, 1759. My dear Child, Hearing that you was in the Park last Sunday, I hop’d for the Pleasure of seeing you yesterday at the Oratorio…
April 1759 To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury. The Memorial of Benjamin Franklin Agent for the Province of Pensilvania Sheweth, That since the Beginning of…
Wellingborough March 17th. 1759. Sir I have communicated Yours of the 8th Instant to Mr. Fisher, 6 who gave me the inclosed Bill of Funeral and other necessary Expences, to…
Philadelphia February 27th. 1759. Sir According to Promise, 9 I have now, by Captain Finglass, sent you the first Copy of another Bill of Exchange for £100. Sterling more, 1…
[February 12, 1759] Nos Universitatis St. Andreae apud Scotos Rector Promotor, Collegiorum Praefecti, Facultatis Artium Decanus, caeterique Professorum Ordines, Lectoribus Salutem Quandoquidem aequum est et Rationi congruens, ut qui magno…
Illington, 8 Feb. the 5 1759 Sir As you have Testified so particularly a desire, in being better Informd in your Affair, with Mr. Franklin we took an Oppertunity of…
Castle Thorp, Jan the 19. 1759 Dear Sir The Joy I had in receiving your Letter 2 was beyond Measure. To think as you granted my Desire and return you…