1 reel. Papers of David Hartley, M.P. (1732-1813). Correspondence regarding his attempts as a Member of Parliament to reconcile Britain and America. Originals are in the Berkshire Record Office, Reading, England.

6 reels. Includes correspondence between David Hartley and the Secretary of State, 1782-1784, with other materials relating to peace treaties, copies of American papers, claims by British officers, supplemental loyalist papers, the papers of John Temple, Consul General to America, 1783-1785. Originals are in The National Archives (Britain).

These papers include material relating to Hartley's activities before and during the American Revolution and at the peace conference. Benjamin Franklin is included among the correspondents.

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.