Letters to Benjamin Franklin 83 



From James Parker. 1768, April 25. New York. 



Has not had a line from Franklin since December. Wishing him a 

 safe and speedy return home. A. L. S. i p. II, 122. 



From The Royal Society. 1768. April. London. 



Notice of a Council meeting on April 28, 1768. Engraved N. S. 

 J. Robertson, Ch[airman]. i p. II, 1225^. 



From [Barbeu] Dubourg. 1768. May 8. Paris. 



Acknowledging treatise on the small-pox by Mr. Dimsdale; discusses 

 new method of treating this disease. Pays Franklin many compliments 

 on the style of his writings in the periodicals; anxious to have these 

 translated together with Franklin's examination, to be published in the 

 " Ephemerides du Citoyen." Has announced the rough draft of this 

 translation in the honorable assemblies at the house of the Marquis de 

 Mirabaud. Sends explanation of his Chronological Chart, which Frank- 

 lin was good enough to ask for. Acknowledges the Biographical Chart 

 of Mr. Priestley. Thanks him for the strange nuts, — walnuts and 

 hickories. Wants to know if the liberty of the press in London or 

 Philadelphia would permit of his printing an article on Deism, and if 

 so, would Franklin take charge of it? A. L. S. 4 p. [In French.] 



II, 123. 



From [Pierre Samuel] Du Pont [de Nemours]. 

 1768. May 10. Paris. 



Heard from Dr. Quesnay, when it was too late, of Franklin's visit to 

 Paris; regret at not having seen him ; has long known him as the savant, 

 the mathematician and the philosopher; has taken the liberty of trans- 

 lating some of his papers on the affairs of the Colonies, in which he is 

 revealed as the citizen-philosopher, occupied for the good of his brothers 

 and the interest of humanity. Sends him two books: one a collection of 

 Dr. Quesnay's writings, the other his own treatise, " La Physiocratie," 

 a resume of Dr. Quesnay's principles. Introducing the bearer, Mr. 

 Reboul, Secretary of the Economical Society. A. L. S. 4 p. [In 

 French.] II, 124. 



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