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Samuel Johnson to Benjamin Franklin, December 14, 1750
[December 14? 1750] 5 Perhaps as the [business?] of the 2d. Class is large some account of parts of Speech and Construction might be prescribed to the first Class. As…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, December 6, 1750
Philada. Dec. 6. 1750 Dear Sir I receiv’d your Favour of Augt. 31. per Mesnard, and Copy per Shirley who is just arrived. Mr. Joseph Crellius 2 is gone to…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, November 22, 1750
Philada. Nov. 22. 1750 Dear Sir You are very obliging in your Compliments on my Sketch of the English School; 8 But I find ’tis deficient in the main Thing;…
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Samuel Johnson to Benjamin Franklin, November 1, 1750
[November 1750] Sir: As I could not make a tour to Philadelphia this Fall I have lately taken a Car’g [carriage] ride to several parts of this Colony and being…
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Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Johnson, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25, 1750 Rev. Sir, Enclosed I return your Noetica as you desired, that you may add or alter what you think fit before it goes to the Press,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25. 1750 Dear Sir, I ought to have inform’d you sooner that we got well home, and should have enquir’d after your Health as we left you in…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, October 25, 1750
Philada. Oct. 25. 1750 Sir Enclos’d with this I send you all my Electrical Papers fairly transcrib’d, and I have as you desir’d examin’d the Copy and find it correct.…
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Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, October 11, 1750
Philada. Oct. 11. 1750 Sir I have learnt by different hands, that Dr. Mitchel continues in a bad State of Health, 3 which I suppose obliges him to drop his…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, September 27, 1750
Philada. Sept. 27. 1750 Dear Brother I received yours of the 17th Inst. with the Plan of Halifax for which I thank you. 9 Pray send me the Heads of…
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Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, September 20, 1750
Philadelphia, 20 September, 1750 Dear Sister, I received yours the 11th instant, 6 with one enclosed for cousin Benny; but he, I suppose, is in Boston with you before this…