W. Jones sends Benjamin Franklin some poetry and references a mutual acquaintance who is having troubles and needs advice.; American Philosophical Society
Letter from Nathanael Greene. Poem by a young lady, signed Plebia, to General Greene, founded on a quotation of Plato's, that "The general of the army .... looks upon himself as an executor of Divine justice by war, but he banishes all private views, false glory, unbridled ambition, barbarous cruelties and unjust exactions."; American Philosophical Society
Hannah Marshall Haines' book of poetry, including "An Elegiac Poem on the Death of an only Daughter, who died aged 11 years", "On General Washington", "On reading Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian Divinity", "Elegy to the Memory of M Wakefield", "A Moral Reflection Written on the Last Day of the Year 1780", "On Benjamin Trotter", "By Elisabeth Carter, in her eighteenth year", "Beauty's a fair but fading flower, or, the Rose", "On the Death of Mary Mayberry" amongst others.; Blank pages were not scanned.; American Philosophical Society
Francis Hopkinson writes to Benjamin Franklin about current events. At the end he includes a poem called "The Dog & the S[c]unk: an historical Fable."; Correspondence and a fable "The dog and the skunk"; American Philosophical Society
