Benjamin Franklin to Ezra Stiles, July 10, 1755
Philada. July 10. 1755 Dear Sir This is only to acknowledge the Receipt of three very agreable Letters from you, 9 and to promise an Answer as soon as I…
Philada. July 10. 1755 Dear Sir This is only to acknowledge the Receipt of three very agreable Letters from you, 9 and to promise an Answer as soon as I…
Eliza. Town (N.J.) July 9: 1755 [ Missing ] therefore take the Freedom of desiring you to deliver him the Inclosed and to shew him your wonted Civility with the…
Philada. July 3. 1755. Dear Friend Before this reaches you, you will have heard that the House is adjourn’d. A Bill to strike £10,000 Exchange Money is pass’d, and nothing…
Philadelphia 29 June 1755 Sir, I have for a long time owed you a reply to your last letter dated June. 20, 1754. 7 I received it in January last…
Block Island June the 28th [1755] 4 Dear, Dear Sir, Excues my writeing when I tell you it is the great regard I have for you will not let me…
Maryland 27. June 1755. Dear Sir I embrace this first Opportunity that hath presented itself to return You my thanks for the very polite and Hospitable Entertaintment I met with…
Philada. June 26. 1755 Dear Friend I am glad to learn that the Flour is mostly if not all got up to Conegocheeg, 3 and that you have so good…
Philada. June 26. 1755 Dear Friend Mr. Bartram brings a Box to my House, which has a little Vacancy in it; so I put in my Philosophical Pacquet, which I…
[June 17, 1755] 3 Dear Sir, It is now near three years since I received your excellent Observations on the Increase of Mankind, &c . 4 in which you have…
Thursday morning [June 12, 1755] Sir Please to send me One hundred and Fifty Pounds on Account of the Committee. 3 It should be Paper Money, as it is to…