120 Letters to Benjamin Franklin 



From Sam[uel] Rhoads. 1771. May 3, Philadelphia. 



Limestone. — Trade of Baltimore. — Project of a canal from the Sus- 

 quehanna to the Schuylkill. — Pennsylvania Hospital. A. L. S. 2 p. 



HI, 55. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VII, 518). 



From William Smith. 1771. May 3. Philadelphia. 



Agreeable to the directions of the Philosophical Society, has sent 

 Franklin, as their President, eleven copies of the first volume of the So- 

 ciety's Transactions, which he is requested to deliver to the persons men- 

 tioned in the letter ; will send more copies later ; would like the Astrono- 

 mer Royal to have his as soon as possible. A. L. S. i p. Ill, 56. 



From C [adwalader] Evans. 1771. May 4. Philadelphia. 



His account of Mr. Walpole's valuation of the samples of silk sent, 

 gave them spirits; account of the condition in which the eggs arrived 

 from Spain; advises a different manner of transportation; the experiment 

 in America takes beyond their most sanguine expectations. Transac- 

 tions of the [American Philosophical] Society sent by Dr. Smith. De- 

 parture of Gov. Penn for England immediately on hearing of his father's 

 death ; his brother, Dick Penn, who is to take his place, said to be 

 illiterate, arbitrary and vindictive. Apologizes for not writing to [Sam- 

 uel] Wharton, whose father has been ill all winter ' with a slow fever, 

 an inveterate cough and a pertinacious refusal of all medicines'; saw a 

 good deal of Wharton's friend, David Darrach. Sends Franklin a 

 snuff-box made out of the root of laurel. A. L. S. 3 p. Ill, 57. 



From A. Clarke. 1771. May 5. Barbadoes. 



Acquainting him with their arrival on December 9 ; very kindly re- 

 ceived by Capt. Clarke's mother and relations ; Capt. Clarke in Grenada ; 

 his family one of the first on the island ; his brother very rich and a great 

 traveller and keeps open house. A. L. S. i p. Ill, 58. 



From [Thomas] Pownall. 1771. May 7. Whitehall. 



Asking Franklin if he can inform him who will take out the warrant 

 appointing [Daniel] Coxe one of the Council of New Jersej^ L. in 3d 

 P. I p. Ill, 60. 



