1321To Benjamin Franklin from Harvard College, 16 June 1772: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from William C. Lane, “Harvard College and Franklin,” The Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts , X (1907), 238. <June 16, 1772: The President and Fellows vote to extend their thanks to Franklin for the gift of Dr. Priestley’s History and Present State of the Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (London, 1772), and to request Dr. Winthrop to forward a...
1322To Benjamin Franklin from William Henly, [June?] 17, [1772?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Having Received an Account from Dr. Priestley that he could not verify my Experiment of ascertaining the direction of the Electric Matter in its passage through flame, I took the Liberty to call at your House with my Apparatus, in order to shew it you both positively and negatively, but I found you was gone into the Country. I then call’d and shew’d it to...
1323To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Maseres, 17 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am much obliged to you for the favour of your letter and the remarks on my proposal, concerning which this is what I have to say. In page 46, I think it unnecessary, and rather inconvenient, to limit the expence of these grants in the act of parliament itself. I hope it will be as small as possible, and mean that these grants should be printed with blanks...
1324To Benjamin Franklin from John Walsh, 21 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and copy: American Philosophical Society After some enquiry I procured the two Copies of Gennete’s Book and shall deliver them to Sir John Lambert to forward to you by some one of our returning Countrymen. Your friend M. Le Roy, who presents you his Compliments, has shewn us many Civilities; as has M. Trudaine, the Abbé Morillet’s friend for which I must beseech you to make my...
1325To Benjamin Franklin from William Alexander, 30 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is not perhaps unknown to you that soon after my Arrival in this Country from England I was induced to make several large purchases of Lands with a Veiw of soon disposeing of some of them again to Advantage; you well know the Sudden Change that took place in the Sale of Lands, Vast Quantitys of new Lands Comeing into the Market and a great Scarceity of...
1326To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 30 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I reseved by the packit which was to a cume by Capt. Laxly I am verey glad to hear that you continew well. I hope your friend Dr. Small is Safe a rived and is well my compleymantes to all that I am obliged to love and respeckt. You may see what blunders by the scratchin oute that I am not capabel of writin so I shall only say that I find my selef growing...
1327To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 30 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I have recieved your Remarks on our Account on which I have only to observe, That The Ten Guineas must have been paid by you for Nelson’s Passage, and you expressly say you paid it, I find, in your Letter of the 21st: of Septbr: 1765. which probably you kept no Copy of, as you mention the Vessel to be just upon the Point of Sailing. The 8 Guineas being in...
1328To Benjamin Franklin from Andre Morellet, [30 June? 1772] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je vous remercie très humblement de votre attention pour moy je me servirai des lettres que vous aves eu la bonté de m’envoyer pour birmingham. J’espere encore que j’aurai le plaisir de vous y trouver. Je pars demain de Whycomb pour oxford ou je passerai 2 ou 4 jours c’est à dire jusques à samedi ou lundi prochain je compte etre à birmingham le dimanche ou...
1329To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your Letter of the 14th. April merits my best Acknowledgments, for the kind and affectionate Manner in which you express your Fears of my having appropriated Mr. Warrens Money to other purposes: In the manner this Matter may have appeared to you, those Fears were Just, and I think myself happy in having so good a Friend to forewarn me of even supposed...
1330To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 1 July 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I presume that by this time you are arrived in London, and I am willing to take the first opportunity of informing you, that I have niver been so busy, or so successful in making experiments, as since I had the pleasure of seeing you at Leeds. I have fully satisfied myself that air rendered in the highest degree noxious by breathing is restored by sprigs of...