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Benjamin Franklin...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">2</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=2"><span>To Benjamin Franklin from James Logan, 1 May 1731</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>Letterbook copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; also transcript: Harvard College Library...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">3</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=3"><span>Receipted Bill to the Proprietors, 25 June 1733</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>ADS : Friends Library, London 1. For printing 5 Sheets at 30 s. per Sheet £ 7 10 – 2. For Paper 5...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">4</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=4"><span>Sarah Read to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: Bargain and Sale, 9 April 1734</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>DS : American Philosophical Society This document and the two which immediately follow record the...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">5</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=5"><span>Sarah Read to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: Release, 10 April 1734</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>DS : American Philosophical Society; also copy: Office of Recorder of Deeds, Philadelphia This...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">6</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=6"><span>From a Reader to the Printer, 11 April 1734</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , April 11, 1734. Tho’ your News-paper is sometimes as empty...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">7</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=7"><span>To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Morgan, 7 July 1735</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>ALS : American Philosophical Society Sir, I have long expected to See the new Edition of The...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">8</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=8"><span>To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Morgan, 5 October 1738</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>ALS : The Royal Society If my Manuscripts be not gone before this comes to you; I have one Small...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">9</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=9"><span>To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Morgan, 11 October 1738</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>ALS : The Royal Society Please to fasten this to the Manuscript of Philosophy. And if it be gone,...</span></div><div class="search-result-header"><span class="search-result-index">10</span><span class="search-result-title"><a href="/?q=%20Recipient%3A%22Franklin%2C%20Benjamin%22&s=1111311111&r=10"><span>To Benjamin Franklin from Josiah Franklin, 26 May 1739</span></a><span class="prjt"> (Franklin Papers)</span></span></div><div class="search-result-snippet"><span>MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , I , 4–5. As to the original of our name there is...</span></div></div></div></div><div id="hatches"></div><div id="bottom_shadow"></div></div><footer> <div id="top_footer_section" class="clearfix"> <a href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/" id="nhprc_logo" class="ir" target="_blank">NHPRC</a> <div id="divider"></div> <div id="nhprc_blurb"><p>The <a href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/" style="color:inherit" target="_blank">National Historical Publications and Records Commission</a> (NHPRC) is part of the National Archives. 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