Benjamin Franklin to William Coleman, December 8, 1757
At a Meeting of the Trustees at the Academy March 14th 1758 Present Mr. Franklin having by a Letter to Mr. Coleman dated from London Dec. 8th 1757 requested him…
At a Meeting of the Trustees at the Academy March 14th 1758 Present Mr. Franklin having by a Letter to Mr. Coleman dated from London Dec. 8th 1757 requested him…
Wednesday Morne [Nov. 30, 1757] 3 Dear Sir, If convenient, I should be oblig’d to you for three or four Hundred Pound Draughts on your Banker. My Sister wants one…
Spring Garden, Novr. 25: 1757. Sir As I find by what you told me and by my Letters from Pennsylvania that Admiral Holborne 9 had not Station’d a Ship in…
Novr 24th 1757 Benja Franklin The above is a Copy of my last. 4 I have Since received two letters of the 23d (a Copy, the Original not Come To…
[November 23, 1757] 1 As the Proprietaries of Pensilvania think it highly probable, that the House of Representatives, on sending over their Agent, may have charged him with some Applications…
London, Nov. 22. 1757 My dear Child, During my Illness which continued near Eight Weeks, I wrote you several little Letters, 6 as I was able; the last was by…
Philadelphia 20th Novemr 1757 Sir My two last to you by Capt. Budden to London, and Capt. Stewart to Liverpoole, 3 contained the first and second Copies of a Bill…
[Philadelphia, November 12, 1757] Here is a visible Aurora Borealis; at 7 a Clock it was about two hours high, to the northward pretty bright. Soon after Day light disappeared…
Tuesday morning, [October, 1757?] 5 Dear Doctor I took the 30 grs. of Comp[oun]d Powder of Contrayerva 6 you prescribed, and had a good Night. I had no Headach in…
Philadelphia, 19th October 1757 Dear Sir My last to you by the Carolina Captain Duncan, 1 contained the second Copy of a Bill of Exchange for £100. which I hope…