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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4201 | Massachusetts Provincial Congress | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts Provincial … | 1775-04-26 | LS : Massachusetts Historical Society; draft: Massachusetts Archives; copies: National Archives... |
| 4202 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 6 May 1775 | 1775-05-06 | ALS : Dartmouth College Library What as far as we know was the first letter Franklin wrote after... |
| 4203 | Franklin, Benjamin | Galloway, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Galloway, 8 May 1775 | 1775-05-08 | ALS : Mrs. Arthur Loeb, Philadelphia (1955) This short letter is tantalizingly uninformative. It... |
| 4204 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hartley, David | From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 8 May 1775 | 1775-05-08 | ALS : Harvard University Library I arrived here on Friday Evening, and the next morning was... |
| 4205 | Pennsylvania Assembly | Franklin, Benjamin | The Pennsylvania Assembly: Instructions to Its … | 1775-05-09 | Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the Province of Pennsylvania . . . (6 vols., Philadelphia,... |
| 4206 | Greene, Catharine | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Catharine Greene, [14 May … | 1775-05-14 | ALS : Yale University Library Welcom a Hundred times Welcom to our once happy Land. Are you in... |
| 4207 | Mecom, Jane | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, 14 May 1775 | 1775-05-14 | ALS : Yale University Library God be Praised for bring you Saif back to America and soporting you... |
| 4208 | Franklin, Benjamin | Burke, Edmund | From Benjamin Franklin to Edmund Burke, 15 May 1775 | 1775-05-15 | ALS : Central Library, Sheffield The background of this letter was conversations between the two... |
| 4209 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shipley, Jonathan | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, 15 May 1775 | 1775-05-15 | ALS : Yale University Library I arrived here well the 5th. after a pleasant Passage of 6 Weeks. I... |
| 4210 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bradford, William | From Benjamin Franklin to [William?] Bradford, 16 May … | 1775-05-16 | ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania; draft: American Philosophical Society I have just now... |
| 4211 | Franklin, Benjamin | Priestley, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to [Joseph Priestley], 16 May … | 1775-05-16 | Printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces . . .... |
| 4212 | Jones, Noble Wimberly | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Noble Wimberly Jones, 16 May … | 1775-05-16 | ALS : Duke University Library The frequent accounts of your Intentions of leaving England, also... |
| 4213 | Dumas, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric … | 1775-05-17 | ALS (draft): Library of Congress En attendant que j’aie l’avantage de répondre plus au long à la... |
| 4214 | Williams, Jonathan Jr. | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 20 … | 1775-05-20 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Since my last I have recvd from La Duchesse de Villroy the... |
| 4215 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marshall, Humphry | From Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, 23 May 1775 | 1775-05-23 | Reprinted from William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall . . .... |
| 4216 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 26 May 1775 | 1775-05-26 | ALS : Marietta College Library; copy: Harvard University Library I have just now heard by Mr.... |
| 4217 | Oliver, Richard | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Oliver, 31 May 1775 | 1775-05-31 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Some time since Mr. Wm Lee forwarded my letter to you... |
| 4218 | Franklin, Benjamin | Proposed Resolutions of Thanks, [May 1775, June 1775 … | ≈1775-05-01 | AD : American Philosophical Society The first Continental Congress had sent to London, along with... | |
| 4219 | Franklin, Benjamin | Priestley, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to [Joseph Priestley?], May 1775 | ≈1775-05-01 | Unfinished draft: Library of Congress During his voyage to Philadelphia Franklin made the... |
| 4220 | Seidel, Nathaniel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Nathaniel Seidel, May 1775 | ≈1775-05-01 | Two copies: Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Your safe return from England into this... |
| 4221 | Franklin, Benjamin | Seidel, Nathaniel | From Benjamin Franklin to Nathaniel Seidel, 2 June 1775 | 1775-06-02 | ALS : Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania I am much oblig’d by your kind Congratulations... |
| 4222 | Friis, John Jacob | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from John Jacob Friis, 2 June 1775 | 1775-06-02 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Here inclosed I return the Letter, which You were so... |
| 4223 | Franklin, Benjamin | Life, Thomas | From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Life, 5 June 1775 … | 1775-06-05 | Extract: Papers of the Earl of Dartmouth deposited in the Staffordshire County Record Office I... |
| 4224 | Strahan, William | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 7 June 1775 … | 1775-06-07 | Extract: Papers of the Earl of Dartmouth deposited in the Staffordshire County Record Office... |
| 4225 | Williams, Jonathan Jr. | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 7 … | 1775-06-07 | ALS : Yale University Library Agreeable to a Message from Lord Shelburn, I waited on the Prince... |
| 4226 | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Hewson, 10 June 1775 | 1775-06-10 | ALS : American Philosophical Society My mother promis’d Lord Drummond to send a letter to you by... |
| 4227 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, William Temple | From Benjamin Franklin to William Temple Franklin, 13 … | 1775-06-13 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I wonder’d it was so long before I heard from you. The... |
| 4228 | Franklin, Benjamin | Greene, Catharine | From Benjamin Franklin to [Catharine Greene], 17 June … | 1775-06-17 | Copy: American Philosophical Society I received your kind congratulations with infinite pleasure,... |
| 4229 | Franklin, Benjamin | Mecom, Jane | From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 17 June 1775 | 1775-06-17 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you some time since, having heard from one of the... |
| 4230 | Williams, Jonathan Sr. | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Sr., 19 … | 1775-06-19 | ALS : Yale University Library Hearing that you was arrv’d in America and I being much Concrned... |
| 4231 | Vaughan, Samuel | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Vaughan, 24 June 1775 | 1775-06-24 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I most sincerely congratulate you and your country, upon... |
| 4232 | Franklin, Benjamin | Browns & Collinson | From Benjamin Franklin to Browns & Collinson, 27 June … | 1775-06-27 | ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society Pay the Ballance of my Account to John Sargent Esqr.... |
| 4233 | Franklin, Benjamin | Sargent, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Sargent, 27 June 1775 | 1775-06-27 | ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society I have written to Messrs. Browns and Collinson to pay... |
| 4234 | Editorial Note on the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety … | 1775-06-30 | On June 30, 1775, in response to a recommendation from the Philadelphia committee of inspection... | ||
| 4235 | Dumas, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric … | 1775-06-30 | ALS : American Philosophical Society En réponse à la Lettre toute obligeante dont vous m’avez... |
| 4236 | Shipley, Jonathan | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Shipley, [June 1775] | ≈1775-06-01 | Incomplete autograph copy: Yale University Library I would give much more than I can afford for... |
| 4237 | Four Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress | Philadelphia Committee of Inspection and … | Four Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress to the … | ≈1775-07-03 | DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Philip Skene had made a protracted visit to England and... |
| 4238 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 5 July 1775 | 1775-07-05 | ALS : Library of Congress; copy: Pierpont Morgan Library This famous letter was unquestionably... |
| 4239 | Strahan, William | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 5 July 1775 | 1775-07-05 | Copy: Papers of the Earl of Dartmouth deposited in the Staffordshire County Record Office I wrote... |
| 4240 | Editorial Note on the Declaration of the Causes and … | 1775-07-06 | On June 23 Congress appointed a committee of five, Franklin among them, to draft a declaration to... | ||
| 4241 | Lee, Arthur | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Arthur Lee, 6 July 1775 | 1775-07-06 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I write to you more to prove my remembrance of you, than for... |
| 4242 | Franklin, Benjamin | Priestley, Joseph | From Benjamin Franklin to [Joseph Priestley], 7 July … | 1775-07-07 | Extract printed in Benjamin Vaughan, ed., Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces... |
| 4243 | Franklin, Benjamin | Shipley, Jonathan | From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, 7 July 1775 | 1775-07-07 | ALS : Yale University Library I received with great Pleasure my dear Friends very kind Letter of... |
| 4244 | Editorial Note on the Olive Branch Petition, 8 July … | 1775-07-08 | By the beginning of June, 1775, the shadow of coming events lay over the delegates in... | ||
| 4245 | Franklin, Benjamin | Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson | From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, 8 July 1775 | 1775-07-08 | ALS : Yale University Library I thank you for your kind Letter of April 11th. It grieves me that... |
| 4246 | Three Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress | Lancaster County Committee | Three Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress to the … | 1775-07-11 | ALS : Library of Congress < July 11, 1775: We have received your communication about the rifle... |
| 4247 | Franklin, Benjamin | Endorsement of Legal Opinions on Land Titles Obtained … | 1775-07-12 | ADS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania The promoters of the Walpole Company in London had... | |
| 4248 | Franklin, Benjamin | Draft of a Resolution Proposed to Congress by the … | ≈1775-06-30 | AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Trade had bred controversy in the debates the previous... | |
| 4249 | Mecom, Jane | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Jane Mecom, 14 July 1775 | 1775-07-14 | ALS : American Philosophical Society The Concern I knew my Ever Dear Brother would be in to know... |
| 4250 | Franklin, Benjamin | Stevenson, Margaret | From Benjamin Franklin to Margaret Stevenson, 17 July … | 1775-07-17 | ALS (draft): American Philosophical Society All Trade and Business, Building, Improving, &c.... |