1From Benjamin Franklin to James Read, 17 August 1745 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from The Port Folio , I (1801), 165–6. I have been reading your letter...
2From Benjamin Franklin to James Read, [before 1 August 1771] (Franklin Papers)
Extract : Historical Society of Pennsylvania The most friendly Advice I can give you, is, to...
3From Benjamin Franklin to James Read, 5 December 1748 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: New York Public Library ’Tis some Time since I receiv’d a considerable Account against you...
4From Benjamin Franklin to James Read, 2 November 1755 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Morris Duane, Philadelphia, on deposit in Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1957) I...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Conrad Weiser, Jonas Seely, and James Read, 30 December 1755 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Grand Lodge F. and A.M. of Pennsylvania We are just on the Point of setting out for...
6To George Washington from James Read, 18 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am told by my Friend Colonel Biddle, Marshal of our Court of Admiralty, that he has been well...
7To George Washington from James Read, 23 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Politeness with which you were always pleased to treat me in the Army, when I had occasion to...
8From Alexander Hamilton to James Read, 2 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letters of the twenty seventh and twenty ninth of September. There is as yet...
9From Alexander Hamilton to James Read, 22 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, November 22, 1799. “I request that you will send a non commsd officer to attend upon my...