468 Letters from Benjamin Franklin 



To [Mrs. Deborah Franklin]. 1767. December 14. London. 



Wants her to send him [Henrich] Miller's German Newspapers 

 [Der Wochentliche Philadelphische Staatsbote] for two or three months 

 back and to be continued, and also a lump of that sort of stone they 

 make steps and checks of cellar doors of, at Philadelphia. A. L. S. 

 I p. XLVI(ii), 58. 



An Account of the Paper Money Act of 1739. [.Circa 1767.] 

 A. Dr. of Mem. 4 p. (Incomplete.) L(ii), 47. 



Embodied in Pownall's Administration of the Colonies, London, 1768, p. 234. 



Relative to the Scheme of Issuing Paper Money and the Effect 

 Thereof. [Circa 1767.] 



A. Diss. 4 p. (Incomplete.) L(ii)> ^8. 



Printed in Pownall's Administration of the Colonies, 4th Ed., 1768, I, 340. 



To . [Circa 1767?] 



Is ashamed of his procrastination. (First part missing.) A. Dr. of 

 L. I p. XLVI(i), 59. 



To Sir John Pringle. [Circa 1767.] 



Perused the remarks made by Capt. Coates relative to voyages into the 

 Hudson Bay, the geography of the country and his reasons for believing 

 a western sea to be not far distant. Should be made available to all 

 who should endeavor further attempts to discover a northwest pas- 

 sage. A. Dr. of L. S. 2 p. XLVI(i), 12^. 



To [Thomas Frangois] Dalibard. 1768. January 31. London. 



Hopes he received Priestley's History of Electricity; wishes that that 

 book might renew his taste for that branch of philosophy. Thanks for 

 the many civilities he received when at Paris. A. Dr. of L. S. 2 p. 



XLV, 33a. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VI, 277; Bigelow, IV, iii; Smyth, V, 94). 



To Abbe Chappe. 1768. January 31. London. 



Sends him a tooth, which was found together with 30 large skeletons, 

 near the Ohio about 200 miles from Fort Du Quesne; and which is 

 supposed to belong to an elephant. Wants his opinion and would 

 like to know if anything of that kind has been found in Siberia. A. 

 Dr. of L. S. 2 p. XLV, 33b. 



Printed in V7orks (Smyth, V, 92). 



