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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) CCXII: TO MISS MARY STEVENSON - The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. III Letters and Misc. Writings 1753-1763
CCXII: TO MISS MARY STEVENSON - Benjamin Franklin, The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. III Letters and Misc. Writings 1753-1763 [1904]Edition used:The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. III (Letters and Misc. Writings 1753-1763).
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- The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Volume III: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings
- 1753: CVII: To William Smith
- CVIII: To Cadwallader Colden
- CIX: To James Bowdoin
- 1754: CX: To Peter Collinson
- CXI: To Cadwallader Colden
- CXII: Plan of Union For the Colonies
- CXIII: Three Letters to Governor Shirley
- 1755: CXIV: To Miss Catherine Ray, At Block Island
- CXV: Electrical Experiments
- CXVI: To John Lining, At Charleston, South Carolina
- CXVII: To M. Dalibard, At Paris, Enclosed In a Letter to Peter Collinson
- CXVIII: To Peter Collinson
- CXIX: To Jared Eliot
- CXX: To Jared Eliot
- CXXI: To Miss Catherine Ray
- CXXII: To William Shirley
- CXXIII: To James Read
- CXXIV: An Act 1
- CXXV: To William Parsons 1
- CXXVI: To William Parsons
- CXXVII: A Dialogue 1 Between X, Y, & Z, Concerning the Present State of Affairs In Pennsylvania.
- CXXVIII: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- 1756: CXXIX: Commission From Lieut.-governor Morris
- CXXX: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CXXXI: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CXXXII: To a Friend 1
- CXXXIII: To Robert Hunter Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania
- CXXXIV: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CXXXV: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CXXXVI: To Mrs. Jane Mecom
- CXXXVII: To Miss E. Hubbard 2
- CXXXVIII: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CXXXIX: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Cxl: to Joseph Huey
- Cxli: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Cxlii: to William Parsons
- Cxliii: to Geo. Whitefield
- Cxliv: to Thomas Pownall 1
- Cxlv: to George Washington 1
- Cxlvi: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Cxlvii: to Edward and Jane Mecom
- Cxlviii: Plan For Settling Two Western Colonies In North America, With Reasons For the Plan 1
- 1757: Cxlix: to Robert Charles. 1
- Cl: Report of the Committee of Aggrievances of the Assembly of Pennsylvania
- Cli: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Clii: to William Parsons
- Cliii: to Miss Catherine Ray
- Cliv: to Mr. Dunlap
- Clv: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clvi: to John Lining, At Charleston, South Carolina
- Clvii: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Clviii: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Clix: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clx: to Isaac Norris 1
- Clxi: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Clxii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxiii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxiv: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxv: From William Strahan to Mrs. Franklin 1
- Clxvi: to John Pringle 2
- 1758: Clxvii: to John Pringle
- Clxviii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxix: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxx: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxxi: to Thomas Hubbard, At Boston
- Clxxii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxxiii: to the Speaker and Committee of the Pennsylvania Assembly
- Clxxiv: to John Lining, At Charleston
- Clxxv: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxxvi: to Hugh Roberts
- Clxxvii: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- 1759: Clxxviii: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- 1760: Clxxix: to Lord Kames 1
- Clxxx: to John Hughes
- Clxxxi: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxxxii: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Clxxxiii: to Lord Kames
- Clxxxiv: to Peter Franklin 1
- Clxxxv: to Alexander Small, London
- Clxxxvi: to Miss Stevenson, At Wanstead
- Clxxxvii: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Clxxxviii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Clxxxix: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- CXC: The Interest of Great Britain Considered, With Regard to Her Colonies and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe 1
- CXCI: To Lord Kames
- CXCII: To David Hume
- CXCIII: To John Baskerville 2
- CXCIV: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CXCV: To the Printer of the London Chronicle
- 1761: CXCVI: To Hugh Roberts
- CXCVII: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CXCVIII: To Josiah Quincy
- CXCIX: To Henry Potts, Esq.
- CC: To Edward Pennington 2
- CCI: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CCII: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCIII: To Lord Kames
- 1762: CCIV: To David Hume
- CCV: To E. Kinnersley
- CCVI: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCVII: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCVIII: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CCIX: From David Hume to B. Franklin
- CCX: To David Hume 1
- CCXI: Fire
- CCXII: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCXIII: Electrical Experiments On Amber
- CCXIV: To John Baptist Beccaria
- CCXV: To Oliver Neave
- CCXVI: To Mr. William Strahan At Bath
- CCXVII: To Mr. William Strahan At Oxford
- CCXVIII: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCXIX: To Lord Kames
- CCXX: To Mr. William Strahan
- CCXXI: To John Pringle, In London
- CCXXII: To William Strahan
- CCXXIII: To Mr. Whiteford
- CCXXIV: To Mr. Peter Franklin, At Newport
- 1763: CCXXV: B. Franklin’s Services In the General Assembly
- CCXXVI: To Mrs. Greene 1
- CCXXVII: To ———
- CCXXVIII: To William Strahan
- CCXXIX: Congelation of Quicksilver—cold Produced By Evaporation 1
- CCXXX: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCXXXI: To Jonathan Williams 1
- CCXXXII: To William Strahan
- CCXXXIII: To Miss Mary Stevenson
- CCXXXIV: To William Strahan
- CCXXXV: To Mrs Deborah Franklin
CCXII
TO MISS MARY STEVENSON
London, 7 June, 1762. Dear Polly:—
I received your favor of the 27th past, and have since expected your intended philosophical epistle. But you have not had leisure to write it!
Your good mamma is now perfectly well, as I think, excepting now and then a few rheumatic complaints, which, however, seem gradually diminishing. I am glad to hear you are about to enjoy the happiness of seeing and being with your friends at Bromley. My best respects to the good Dr. and Mrs. Hawkesworth, and say to the dear ladies that I kiss their hands respectfully and affectionately.
Our ships for America do not sail so soon as I expected; it will be yet five or six weeks before we embark, and leave the old world for the new. I fancy I feel a little like dying saints, who, in parting with those they love in this world, are only comforted with the hope of more perfect happiness in the next. I have, in America, connexions of the most engaging kind; and, happy as I have been in the friendships here contracted, those promise me greater and more lasting felicity. But God only knows whether these promises shall be fulfilled. Adieu, my dear good girl, and believe me ever your affectionate friend.
B. Franklin.
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