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Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Franklin, May 1, 1738
[May? 1738] Honoured Father I received your kind Letter of the 4th of May in answer to mine of April 13. 4 I wrote that of mine with a Design…
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Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Franklin, April 13, 1738
April 13. 1738 Honour’d Father and Mother 5 I have your Favour of the 21st of March 6 in which you both seem concern’d lest I have imbib’d some erroneous…
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Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, January 1, 1737
[1737?] Having read the Chapter on Moral Good or Virtue, 5 with all the Attention I am Capable of, amidst the many little Cares that Continually infest me, I shall,…
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Joseph Morgan to Benjamin Franklin, July 7, 1735
Maidenhead 7. July 1735. Mr. Franklin Sir, I have long expected to See the new Edition of The Temp. Inter. 3 If it Sell like that which you last printed…
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Library Company of Philadelphia to John Penn, May 31, 1735
[May 31, 1735] To the Honourable John Penn , Esq; one of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania. The humble Address of the Library Company of Philadelphia. May it please your Honour,…
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Benjamin Franklin to Henry Price, November 28, 1734
Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1734 Dear Brother Price, I am glad to hear of your recovery. I hoped to have seen you here this Fall, agreeable to the expectation you were…
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Benjamin Franklin to Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, November 28, 1734
Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1734 9 Right Worshipful Grand Master and Most Worthy and Dear Brethren, We acknowledge your favor of the 23d of October past, and rejoice that the Grand…
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Thomas Godfrey to Printer of the Gazette, August 15, 1734
Mr. Franklin, The Germans, an industrious and indefatigable People, have been always famous for their Penetration into the more dark and abstruse Parts of Learning, such as border upon Magic…
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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Penn, May 18, 1734
Honorable Thos. Penn Esq. Dr. 9
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Benjamin Franklin to Sarah Read, April 11, 1734
[April 11, 1734] This Indenture made the Eleventh day of April in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God…