From Giambatista Beccaria
Translation of extract (?) in Franklin’s hand: Yale University Library extract (?) in Italian: American Philosophical Society; also copies of extract and translation: Yale University Library
[1757]

Father Beccaria thanks Mr. Franklin for his kind Remembrance; should have had a most singular Pleasure in seeing him at Turin, which he had been made to hope by his Letter to Mr. Haldiman: If he had known of his being in Europe, [he would have addressed his 16 Letters on Electricity to him rather than to anyone else]. They come out in January, and he shall be very glad to present them to him in Turin, where he would be ready to serve him with all his Attention to the utmost of his Power. In those Letters the Theory of M. Franklin, or rather that of Nature, is more fully demonstrated, and some of them contain some new Discoveries in that Branch [of Natural Philosophy].

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