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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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Letters from 1755
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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…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Lining, March 18, 1755
Philadelphia, March 18, 1755 Sir, I send you enclosed a paper containing some new experiments I have made, in pursuance of those by Mr. Canton that are printed with my…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Franklin, March 16, 1755
Philada. March 16. 55 Dear Brother I am pleas’d to hear you are looking out for Proofs to prosecute that Carrier. 9 Don’t let it be neglected. Your Ambassadors are…
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Ezra Stiles to Benjamin Franklin, March 12, 1755
Y.C. [Yale College] Mar. 12. 1755 Sir This accompanies your Letters and Manuscript, 2 which I have perused with very great Pleasure and Admiration. Please to accept my grateful Acknowledgments…