1Note on Marginalia in Benjamin Wilson, Further Observations upon Lightning, [after 25 May 1774] (Franklin Papers)
Wilson’s attack on Franklin in 1773, in Observations upon Lightning , had produced a rebuttal...
2Memorandum on Chatham’s Plan of Conciliation, [on or after 1 February 1775] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Library of Congress On January 29 Chatham left with Franklin the conciliatory plan that he...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Shipley, [on or after 20 March 1775?]: fragment (Franklin Papers)
ALS (incomplete): Yale University Library This fragment is now bound, in a volume of Franklin’s...
4To Benjamin Franklin from William Henly, [after 25 May 1774?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS (incomplete): American Philosophical Society [ Missing ] ourselves without making Mr. W—s...
5From Benjamin Franklin to [William Strahan], [1759–62, 1764–75?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Blumhaven Library (1957) I have perus’d the Parts you put into my Hands of the new...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Katherine French, [1765?–75] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mrs. French thinks it long since she had the pleasure of...
7Three Letters from Dorothea Blunt, [1770–75?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The letters that follow we have found impossible to date....
Copy: Library of Congress; copy: American Philosophical Society It has been demonstrated that...
9Fragment of a Letter to the Public Advertiser, [1774–75] (Franklin Papers)
AD: British Museum The presence of this fragment among the papers of Caleb Whitefoord in the...
10Fragments of Two Letters to the Press [?], [1774–75?] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society These two scraps of Franklin’s ongoing argument for the...
11Request for a Printing, [1774–75?] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Library of Congress The background of this request has already been discussed in connection...
12Notes on Britain’s Intention to Enslave America [1774–75?] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): Library of Congress These notes are impossible to date. At the head of the sheet a...
13A Letter to Be Written by a Frenchman, [1774–75?] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Unsolved problems in editing, as in other areas of...
14Franklin’s Purported Answer to a Nobleman’s Question on the American Disputes, [1775] (Franklin Papers)
MS : Library of Congress This document, of unknown provenance and in an unknown hand, is among...
15Note on Franklin’s Sketch of How to Force a Wheel Round by Gunpowder, [before March 1775?] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society For some years we have been trying and failing to answer two...
16From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin: Journal of Negotiations in London, 22 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
AD and copy: Library of Congress When Franklin at long last set sail for home, memories of the...
17Memorandum for Mrs. Stevenson, [on or before 20 March 1775] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Dr. William Hewson, Philadelphia, Pa. (1957) Franklin, like so many travelers embarking on a...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 19 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Harvard University Library I leave Directions with Mrs. Stevenson to deliver you all the...
19To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 19 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Votre derniere lettre m’ayant eté remise par Mr. Williams...
20To Benjamin Franklin from John Fothergill, 19 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and extract: Library of Congress Be kind enough to take the charge of the inclosed and convey...
21From Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Todd, 18 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
AL (letterbook draft): Library of Congress Dr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Todd, and...
22David Barclay to James Pemberton, 18 March 1775: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extracted from ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania This letter and Fothergill’s to Dartmouth...
23From Benjamin Franklin to [Peter P. Burdett], 17 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Being about to embark for America this Line is just to...
24To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Todd, 17 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: General Post Office, London Mr. Todd presents his Compliments to Dr. Franklin...
25To Benjamin Franklin from John Whitehurst, [before 16 March 1775] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in the Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions …, LXV (1775), pp. 277–9. Presuming the...
26From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Bessborough, 16 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Yale University Library Dr. Franklin presents his respectful Compliments to Lord...
27Proposed Memorial to Lord Dartmouth, 16 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ADS and copy: Library of Congress; draft and copy: American Philosophical Society Franklin’s...
28To Benjamin Franklin from David Barclay, 16 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Library of Congress D: Barclay’s respects, and acquaints Dr. Franklin, that Dr. Fothergill...
29To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Walpole, 16 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and copy: Library of Congress Franklin’s anger at the ministry did not rob him of all...
30From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Kames, 14 March 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh Purposing to embark for America in a few Days, I cannot...