494 Letters from Benjamin Franklin 



To Abel James and Benjamin Morgan. 

 1774. February 18. London. 



Accepted the draft and will duly pay it. Happy to find that his 

 small services have been acceptable to the Society [for promoting the 

 Culture of Silk]. A. Dr. of L. S. i p. XLV, 79- 



To [John] Foxcroft. 1774. February 18. London. 



Hopes nothing he has written has occasioned any coolness. Although 

 no longer colleagues, he begs that they part in friendship. Displaced 

 unwillingly by his masters who were obliged to comply with the orders 

 of the Ministry. Proposes coming home next May. A. Dr. of L. S. 

 1 p. XLV, So. 



Printed in Works (Smyth, VI, 197). 



To [Edward] Antill. 1774. February 18. London. 



Was displaced from office before he had an opportunity of answering 

 his letter, which puts it out of his power to do him any service in 

 what he proposed; will speak to Mr. [Henry] Potts concerning his 

 letter and acquaint him with the result. A. Dr. of L. S. I p. 



XLV, 81. 



To Marquis de Condorcet. 1774. March 20. London. 



Answers his questions about America. A. Dr. of L. S. 2 p. 



XLV, 82. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VI, 411; Bigelow, V, 341; Smyth, VI, 221). 



To Pere [Giambatista] Beccaria. 1774. March 20. London. 



Mr. [John] Walsh discovered that vacuum resists the passage of the 

 electric fluid. (Incomplete.) A. Dr. of L. i p. XLV, 83. 



Printed in Works (in part Sparks, VI, 413; Bigelow, V, 343; entire letter, 

 Smyth, VI, 225). 



To Mrs. [Deborah] Franklin, Philadelphia. 1774. May 5. London. 



His family in England is in great distress. Mrs. [Mary] Hewson 

 has lost her husband and Mrs. [Margaret] Stevenson her son-in-law. 

 Distress of the family. A. L. S. i p. XLVI(ii), 90. 



