Benjamin Franklin to Hugh Roberts, July 16, 1753
Boston July 16. 1753 Dear Friend By a Vessel yesterday from London I receiv’d the enclos’d from the Agent Rd. Patridge, 4 which please to communicate to the Speaker. I…
Boston July 16. 1753 Dear Friend By a Vessel yesterday from London I receiv’d the enclos’d from the Agent Rd. Patridge, 4 which please to communicate to the Speaker. I…
Philada. Thursday July 12. 1753 On Sunday last, about 45 Minutes after 3 in the Morning, a Dwelling House, one of a continued Row on the West Side of Second-Street…
July 3d [1753] Received June the 30. 1753. On Board the London for Philadelphia One long Case Mark’d L 4 M C No. 1 which I promise to Deliver (Dangers…
Mch. 20. 53. Sir Your Febry. 28. 1 with the enclos’d Letters was very acceptable. I am sorry we [are] not provid’d with Instruments to observe the approaching Transit of…
Philada. June 28. 1753 Honoured Sir, I wrote you last Week; 9 since which Nothing new has occurr’d, worth communicating save a [paper?] publish’d by Chattin, that has made a…
Newhaven in Connecticut June 26. 1753 Dear Friend I received a Letter from you on the Road hither, with one of the supplemental Papers on Electricity; and a Letter from…
Antigua, June 20, 1753 Sir, Mr. Benjamin Mecom having received half a dozen circulatory letters from you relating to Mercury’s transit over the sun the 6 of last May, 4…
[June 14, 1753] Know all Men by these Presents, That I Samuel Holland of the Borough of Lancaster and Province of Pensilvania, Printer am Held and firmly bound unto Benjamin…
Philada. June 6. 1753 Sir, I received your kind Letter of the 2d Inst. and am glad to hear that you increase in Strength; I hope you will continue mending…
Philada. June 4. 1753 Sir The above is a Copy of mine per Reeves. 6 This is only to request you would send me here, the Quarto Abridgement of the…