49<^ Letters from Benjamin Franklin 



To [John] Baskerville. 1773. September 21. London. 



Sale of printers' types. Sheet of Chinese paper. Asks him whether 

 he should purchase any matrices for him from Rumford and James's 

 foundries. A. Dr. of L. S. 2 p. XLV, 70. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VIII, 87; Bigelow, V, 222; Smyth, VI, 125). 



To [Thomas Percival], 



1773. September 25. West Wycombe, Seat of Lord le Despencer. 

 Benefits and manner of taking the census every year in China. 

 The amazing number of deaths in Manchester due to the unwholesome- 

 ness of the manufacturing life. Moist air not unwholesome. Health- 

 iness of the inhabitants of Bermuda, St. Helena, etc. A. Dr. of L. S. 

 2 p. XLV, 73. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VI, 402; Bigelow, V, 235; Smyth, VI, 138). 



To Dr. [J.] Ingen Housz. 1773. September 30. London. 



Hopes to leave England next May or June. Sir W[illiam] Hamilton 

 writes from Naples that he has not been able to perceive any certain 

 signs of electricity in the torpedo. Magnetic needle. Nairne's electric 

 machine. Electric rods for the powder magazine at Purfleet. Mr. 

 [Benjamin] Wilson objects to pointed rods. Received a spy glass from 

 M. Tremont, an ingenious young Italian. A. Dr. of L. S. 2 p. 



XLV, 72. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VI, 406; Bigelow, V, 237; Smyth, VI, 141). 



To [Henry Sampson] Woodfall. [1773. September ?] 



If he should think fit to give the enclosed [Rules for Reducing a 

 Great Empire] a place in his paper, he should take care that the com- 

 positor observes strictly the italicizing, capitalizing and the pointing. 

 Requests him to let the enclosed appear in the P[ublic] A[dvertiser] 

 as soon as he can, conveniently. [It appeared in October, 1773.] A. L. 

 in 3d P. I p. XLVI(i), 4. 



To The Public Advertiser. [1773. September.] 



Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one. 

 (Incomplete.) A. Dr. of L. 3 p. LCii)* 4- 



Printed in The Public Advertiser, Oct., 1773, also as a pamphlet, 16 p., 8 vc, 

 London, 1793, and in Works (Sparks, IV, 387; Bigelow, V, 223; Smyth, VI, 127). 



