Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, April 12, 1753
Philada. April 12.1753 Dear Sir I received your Favour of March 20. and a subsequent one without Date, containing the Description of Lord Macclesfield’s Mural Quadrant. 1 No Vessel has…
Philada. April 12.1753 Dear Sir I received your Favour of March 20. and a subsequent one without Date, containing the Description of Lord Macclesfield’s Mural Quadrant. 1 No Vessel has…
Philada. April 12. 1753 Sir I have shipt 18 Glass Jarrs in Casks well pack’d, on board Capt. Branscombe for Boston. 6 of them are for you, the rest I…
[March? 1753] By the post I received your favor, enclosing several printed letters relating to the transit of Mercury over the sun. 5 A gentleman here, who is provided with…
Lond. March 21: 1753 My Dear friend By the Conveyance of our friend Mr. Watson whose Letter I inclose this will informe you the Abbe sent three books. 7 I…
Philada. March 15. 1753 Sir, We send herewith all the Bills in a Trunk, containing as follows 5 In the above, it is to be observed, that there are 100…
Lond. March 7: 1753 My Dear Friend I hope Mine by First Ships with some Books for L:C: [Library Company] as per account on other side and for thyself was…
East Guilford, March. 6. Anno Domi 1753 Revd and Dear Sir, I number it among the fortunate Occurrences of my Life that I have been indulged an Interest in your…
Boston Feb [1753?] 8 Sir I send you inclosed a Short account of a Me[teor?]. You have on many accounts a Right to every new Th[ing?] in natural Phylosophy. I…
Philada. Feb. 28. 1753 Dear Sir I return you herewith Professor Kanster’s Remarks. 2 As far as I am able to judge, the Translation is just, and your Answer a…
Philada. Feb. 28. 1753 Dear Sir, The enclos’d is a Copy of a Letter and some Papers I received lately from a Friend, of which I have struck off Fifty…