ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED IN 1910. 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO CADWALLADER COLDEN. 



PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 1745. 



. . . ''The members of our Society here are very 

 idle gentlemen. They will take no pains. I must, I 

 believe, alter the scheme and proceed with the papers 

 I have, and may receive, in the manner you advise in 

 one of your former letters. " . . .Smyth's -Franklin, 

 II., 289. 



CHARLES THOMSON TO WILLIAM FRANKLIN. 



1757 [!] 



. . . "Our Society goes on well. We have agreed to 

 purchase an electrical apparatus, and a Martin's opti- 

 cal apparatus. I believe we shall trouble you to 

 assisting in choosing the latter for us. But of this 

 more hereafter." . . . Franklin Papers in A.P.S., 

 XL VIII., 120. 



HUGH EGBERTS TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 



PHILADELPHIA, May 15, 1760. 



"Pursuant to thy order, I have 2 or 3 times re- 

 visited the ancient Junto (gentlemen for whom I have 

 a great esteem) and I found some relaxation from the 

 anxiety which attends business, yet I cannot say that 

 the variety of trivial chat (to which I am also in- 

 clined) affords satisfaction when under restraint, so 

 that in some respects there must be an union of 



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