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Deborah Franklin to Peter Collinson, April 30, 1755
Philada. Apl. 30. 1755 Sir Mr. Franklin is from home, and can not have by this Conveyance an Opportunity of answering your Favours by the last Ships. I have forwarded…
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Letters about Science
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Benjamin Franklin to Susanna Wright, April 28, 1755
Monday morning. [April 28, 1755] 5 Dear Madam I thought from the first, that your Proposal of calling the several Townships together, was very judicious. I was only at a…
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Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, April 13, 1755
Annapolis, April 13. 1755 Sunday My dear Child We got well over here last Night about 8 aClock. 6 I believe I shall not return the same Road with the…
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Sarah Browne to Benjamin Franklin, April 12, 1755
Philadelphia, April 12, 1755 Sir, I will give you as exact a description of my sister’s case as I can. 3 First she complained of a slow fever, and then…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Fothergill, April 6, 1755
Philada. April 6. 1755 Dear Sir I am but just return’d from a long Journey, having been absent near [six months]. I find your Favour of Novr. [ I ,…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, April 3, 1755
Philada. April 3. 55 Dear Brother Your Commissioner or Agent Mr. Quincey has done Wonders here. 2 He has executed his Commission extreamly well, and obtained yesterday a Vote for…
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Benjamin Franklin to Catharine Ray, March 1, 1755
[March–April 1755] 6 [I told him that as] I did not know her, I must refer him for Advice to his good Friends in Boston, who could better adapt it…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, March 23, 1755
Philada. March 23. 1755 Dear Sir, This only serves to cover a Bill of Exchange for Twenty Pounds Sterling, drawn on Alexander Grant Esqr. by Mary Steevens. I send it…
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Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, March 20, 1755
March 20. 1755 Sir We should with great Readiness and Submission have obey’d your Honour’s Commands, in Forbearing to publish the two Letters from Sir Thomas Robinson, of July the…
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Robert Hunter Morris to Benjamin Franklin, March 19, 1755
Wednesday, March 19, 1755, Four o’Clock, p.m. Gentlemen, Observing by the Minutes of the Assembly which you sent me, that two Letters, from Sir Thomas Robinson, one of his Majesty’s…