Sir, I have seen in the papers lately, the following article of news, viz. “They write from Maryland, that their Assembly had passed a bill for raising 1000 men, and…
Ecton Sept. 16th. 1758 Sir, I return you my most Sincere thanks for your very kind Presents to me and my wife, which have done, and will afford very agreeable…
London, Sept. 16. 1758 Dear Friend, Your kind Letter of June 1. 4 gave me great Pleasure. I thank you for the Concern you express about my Health, which at…
London, Sept. 16. 1758 Baskerville is printing Newton’s Milton in two Volumes, 8vo. I have inserted your Name in his List of Subscribers, as you mention your Inclination to encourage…
London, Sept. 16. 1758. Dear Sir, I received your Favours of May 17. and June 15. 5 and am glad the Books on Husbandry and Gardening got safe to hand.…
London Sept 16 1758 Dear Sister I received your Favour of June 17. I wonder you have had no Letter from me since my being in England. I have wrote…
London, Sept. 16. 1758 Dear Sir, I wrote you a few Lines on the 6th Inst. in which I omitted acknowledging the Receipt of your several Favours of April 17.…
During Franklin’s first English residence he carried out numerous financial transactions for Isaac Norris. At his friend’s request he bought and sent to Philadelphia a telescope, 8 several books and…
London, Sept. 6. 1758 Dear Sir I have been much in the Country this summer, travelling over great Part of the Kingdom, partly to recover my Health, and partly to…
London, September 6, 1758. My Dear Child, In mine of June 10th, by the Mercury, captain Robinson, 2 I mentioned our having been at Cambridge. We staid there a week,…