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Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, October 18, 1753
Philada. Oct. 18. 1753 Dear Sir I recollect that I promis’d to send you Dr. Brownrigg’s Treatise on Common Salt. 1 You will receive it herewith. I hope it may…
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Letters from 1753
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Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, September 1, 1753
Philadelphia, September 1753. 1 In my former Paper on this Subject, wrote first in 1747, enlarged and sent to England in 1749, 2 I considered the Sea as the grand…
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Charles Woodmason to Benjamin Franklin, September 20, 1753
Cooper River, S. Carolina, Sept. 20, 1753 Let others muse on sublunary things, The rise of empires and the fall of kings; Thine is the praise, with bolder flight to…
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Peter Collinson to Benjamin Franklin, September 15, 1753
Lond. Sept: 15: 1753 My Dear friend As no Ship will Sail from Hence in a Month or 3 Weeks I take this oppertunity to Send by the Way of…
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Yale College to Benjamin Franklin, September 12, 1753
[September 12? 1753] Praeses et Socii Academiae Yalensis in novo portu Connecticutensium in Nov-Anglia Omnibus has Literas perlecturis Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Cum Caius Benjamin Franklin Philadelphiensis, Armiger, Literaturae Politioris…
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Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Clap, August 20, 1753
New York, Augt. 20. 1753 Dear Sir I arrived here well (Thanks to God) on Friday about Noon, and had the Pleasure of hearing from my Family, that all were…
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Peter Collinson to Benjamin Franklin, August 12, 1753
Augt. 12: 1753 4 My Dear Friend I have much to say but am on the Eve of marrying My Daughter 5 and many Orders in hast from Abroad that…
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Harvard College to Benjamin Franklin, July 25, 1753
[July 25, 1753] Senatus Academiae Cantabrigiensis in Nov. Anglia Omnibus in Christo Fidelibus praesentes has Literas inspecturis vel audituris Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Quandoquidem Dominus Benjamin Franklin Armgr: de Philadelphia…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, July 23, 1753
Boston July 23. 1753 Dear Son, I am pleas’d to learn by yours of the 12th that you have taken a circumstantial Account of the Appearances at Trumbles’s House, which…
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Peter Collinson to Benjamin Franklin, July 20, 1753
Londn July 20 1753 It is a great pleasure to Mee to receive so many repeated Instances of my Dear friends regard for Mee, In his Sundry favours of Aprill…