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Title: Benjamin Silliman Sr. to S[amuel] G[eorge] Morton, 1833 January 5
Identifier(s): text:251985
Description: Philadelphia, A.L.S. 1p. and add. Is examining sugar refineries in Philadelphia.
Date: 1833-01-05

Title: Franklin, Benjamin to Jonathan Williams Sr., 1764 February 24
Identifier(s): text:197526
Description: This item was merged into the Jonathan Williams Papers (B W6765) in 2004, but returned to Miscellaneous Benjamin Franklin Collections (Mss.B.F85.misc; subcollection B F85.b) in 2018.
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815; Williams, Jonathan, 1719-1796
Date: 1764-02-24

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin to William Petty, Marquis of Lansdowne, 1785 March 30.
Identifier(s): text:264166
Description: Typed manuscript copy.
Subject: Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835; Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Date: 1785-03-30

Title: Promissory note, no. 16
Identifier(s): text:172668
Source: Franklin-Bache Papers (Mss.B.F85.ba); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85.ba-ead.xml
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Date: 1781-10-01

Title: Franklin, Benjamin to [Gaetano Filangieri], [1783 January 11]
Identifier(s): text:347046
Description: Passy. Congratulations on learning of his marriage. Regrets he cannot personally make their acquaintance. Draft by Le Ray de Chaumont. (In French.) General physical description: Dr. of L. 2p.
Subject: Filangieri, Gaetano, 1752-1788
Date: 1783-01-11

Title: Memorandum, "Hints about an American Negotiation," [1783 December].
Identifier(s): text:263927
Description: "Hints about an American Negotiation." Typed manuscript copy.
Subject: Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835; United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783
Date: [1783 December]

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin to William Petty, Marquis of Lansdowne, 1792 September 21.
Identifier(s): text:259764
Description: Typed manuscript copy.
Subject: Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835; Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Date: 1792-09-21

Title: Franklin, Benjamin to William Carmichael, 1784 October 11
Identifier(s): text:320294
Description: Passy. Incloses the Count d'Aranda's answer to his last letter. Has not replied to it yet. Glad to learn that Mr. [Diego de] Gardoqui is sent to America. Relative to the seizure of James Hartwell, of Salem, with a cargo of tobacco, by the officers of the Spanish Inquisition. Requests him to take proper steps for his release and the restitution of his property. In duplicate (see also: XLV, 188). Other Descriptive Information: Printed in Works (Smyth, IX, 274).
Subject: Carmichael, William, -1795; Gardoqui y Arriquibar, Diego, 1735-1798
Date: 1784-10-11

Title: Receipt Book, 1742-1764
Identifier(s): text:250073
Description: This is a typical receipt book for payments made to various persons for generally unnamed services or materials. Either Franklin, his wife, or the person receiving payment, wrote that he had received so much money on a given date, and signed the entry. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, volume II, 351-352. The last eight pages contain a record of Franklin's income from his business partner, David Hall. Included in the entries is income of money and occasionally the value of books received in lieu of money.
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1746-1764

Title: Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 1760 June 27
Identifier(s): text:274376
Description: London. Advises her not to be troubled by idle reports concerning him. Negro School established by Dr. Bray's Associates. Faults of servants. Marriage in London. Death of David Edwards. (A. copy.)
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Franklin, Deborah Read Rogers, 1708-1774
Date: 1760-06-27

Title: Benjamin Silliman Sr. to Samuel George Morton, 1831 June 26
Identifier(s): text:249328
Description: New Haven, A.L.S. 2p. add. Sends corrected paper. Regarding his recommendation for a position at the University of Georgia.
Date: 1831-06-26

Title: Benjamin Franklin to Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, 1781 October 12
Identifier(s): text:203865
Description: Concerning travel at his age and in his youth. Mentions LeRay de Chaumont.
Subject: Brillon de Jouy, Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 1744-1824; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803
Date: 1781-10-12

Title: Benjamin Silliman Sr. to S[amuel] G[eorge] Morton, 1836 May 2
Identifier(s): text:255462
Description: New Haven, A.L.S. 1p. and add. Publications. Mentions Dr. Mantell's plan to move to America.
Date: 1836-05-02

Title: Letter on the cure of rheumatism by electricity
Identifier(s): text:274604
Description: Letter written to an unidentified recipient, relative to the cure of rheumatism by electricity
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Rheumatism; Electricity
Date: 1773

Title: Benjamin Franklin to John Waring, 1758 January 3
Identifier(s): text:274386
Description: Proposed school for negro children in Philadelphia sponsored by the Associates of Dr.Bray. Transcribes extract of letter from Mr.Sturgeon, August 22,1757.
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Waring, John, 1716-1794
Date: 1758-01-03

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin, Paper On Non-Intervention with France, [ca. 1792].
Identifier(s): text:260179
Description: Typed manuscript copy.
Subject: Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835
Date: [ca. 1792]