MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1710-1822
Abstract:
Since publication of I. Minis Hays's Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in 1908, the APS Library has acquired a large number of miscellaneous letters and other documents relating to the life, mind, and work of Franklin and his immediate family. The collections listed in this finding aid consist of letters and documents to and from Franklin organized into groupings based upon provenance or focal point. The largest grouping consists of miscellaneous materials acquired individually or in small groups over the years, including a number of important individual items. The other collections consist largely of correspondence between Franklin and individual friends and colleagues, including his friends Mme Brillon, Mary "Polly" Stevenson Hewson, and Catherine Ray Greene, the Whig agriculturist Richard Jackson, and the printer Francis Childs.
The collections include photostats of selected materials held by other institutions or that were in private hands. These are available for reference only.
Call #:
Mss.B.F85.misc
Extent:
5 Linear feet
Subjects:
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African Americans -- Education | American Philosophical Society | Bingham, William, 1752-1804 | Brillon de Jouy, Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 1744-1824 | Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803 | Childs, Francis, 1763-1830 | Cook, James, 1728-1779 | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 | France -- Foreign relations -- United States | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States | Greene, William, 1731-1809 | Hartley, David, circa 1731-1813 | Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, 1719?-1800 | Ingersoll, Jared, 1722-1781 | Junto | Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 | Le Roy, Jean Baptiste, 1720-1800 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | Postal service -- United States | Price, Richard, 1723-1791 | Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Stamp Act, 1765 | Stevenson, Margaret | United States -- Foreign relations -- France | United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de, 1719-1787 | Waring, John, 1716-1794 | Williams, Jonathan | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818