Jonathan Williams, Jr. to William Temple Franklin (unpublished)
L’Orient April 2. 1783.
My dear Billy

So long as you continue so kind and obliging to me, so long will you be plagued with applications of one kind or another, qui ont la mauvaise odeur du Commerce, c’est un parfum qui n’est pas bien estimé dans le beau monde a Paris. Your best may therefore to obtain quiet is to throw me off at once; I suspect however I have a friend in your Breast which will not let you get rid of me so easily & I have a most sincere affection for that same Friend of mine.

I have written the Doctor to day, pray read the Letter & give me an answer to it; I feel that every moment of his Time, now he has compleated his public Business, ought to be conscerated to his Ease & satisfaction & I should think myself culpable were I to ask any Diminution by teasing him with my Importunitys.

Je pense bien que tu est le Galant de Madame Williams, fais s’il te plait bien des amitiés de ma part a cette belle Dame, car Je t’assure que Je l’aime bien. I am my dear Billy most affectionately Yours

Jona Williams J

I beg an answer as early as possible as I mean my stay here to be short.
Addressed: a monsieur / Monsieur Franklin fils / a / Passy.
Notation: Jonn. Williams 2d. April 1783
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