To Joseph Morris

Copy: Library Company of Philadelphia

London Feby: 20th. 1761

Dear Friend

I received your’s of Oct: 21 and Nov: 11 relating to the Library Affairs, which I have endeavoured to comply with by engaging a very honest and diligent Book-seller to provide and send the Books ordered by the Directors. Enclosed is the Invoice and Bill of Lading. I hope they will come safe to Hand and give Satisfaction. He has by my Direction added some late Books not in your List, but which I imagine the Company would like to have. My best Respects to the Directors my old Friends, whom I long once more to see. I have acquainted Mr. Collinson with the Mistake of the £30. Bill and shall settle the Company’s Account with him as you desire. I believe he has put some Books into the Box which he had bought for the Company before your letter to me came to hand.

B: Franklin

To Mr. Jos: Morris:

London 1761 Benjamin Franklin Esq. Dr. to Thos. Becket (for the Library Company Philadelphia) shipt on Board the Dragon Capt. Hammet Jany. 24th [?] Philada.

Linnaeus on Botany. by Lee 8Vo.

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Hill’s British Herbal. Folio

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Magen’s on Insurances. 2 Vol: Quarto

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Rowning’s Nat: Philos: 2 Vol: 8vo

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14.

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Sherlocks Sermons. 4 Vols. do

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Macquere’s Chymistry. 2 Vol. do

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D’a Costa’s Nat: Hist: of Fossils Vol: I 4to.

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Davilla’s Hist: of France. 2 Vol. 4to

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Cantillon’s Analysis of Trade &c.

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Du Hammel’s Husbandry 4to.

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Memoirs of a Protestant condemn’d to the Gallies

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Coopers Art of Distilling

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Clarendon’s Posthumous Works 3 Vol:

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Newton on Prophecy 3 Vols.

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Dalrymple on Feudal Property

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Harris’s Justinian

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Crit: Enq: into Opinions ant[ient] Philosophers

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Abbe La Pluche’s Evangelical Hist: 2 Vol.

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The figure of the Earth demonstrated

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Warner’s Life of Sir Thos. Moore

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Basnages Continuation of Josephus

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Edward’s Cannons of Criticism

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Chapman’s Cyder Maker

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Handmaid to the Arts 2 Vol.

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Smallet’s Hist: of England 4 Vol: 4to.

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Jewish Letters 5 Vols.

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Memoirs of the Bashaw Count Bonneval

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Lord Lyttleton’s Dialogues

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Yorick’s Sermons 2 Vol.

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Walker’s Voyages

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Birche’s Life of P. Henry

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Mountagu on Republic’s

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Webb on Painting

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Hooke’s Negotiations

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Ferguson’s Lectures

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Hurde’s Dialogues

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Fragments of antient Poetry

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Historical Law Tracts

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Principles of Equity

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Law of Coroners

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Fabricius’s Letters

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Considerations on the German War

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Vindication of the Ministry

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Revolutions in Bengal

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Box, Cordage, Custom House Entry’s Bills of Lading &c.

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Freight and Primage

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Insurance on £24 at 12 Guineas per Cent.

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