To Mary Stevenson
ALS (two letters): American Philosophical Society
Cravenstreet, May 16. [1767]
Dear Polly

I am unluckily so much engag’d that I cannot have the Pleasure of being at Bromley on Sunday or Monday. Present my best Respects to the good Doctor and Mrs. Hawkesworth, and to the Miss Blounts, and to Mrs. Rogers. I should rejoice in the Opportunity of making your Journey to Town more agreable than in the Stage, if I could possibly embrace it. Sally is ill again of a Fever, and your good Mother much fatigu’d. She sends her Love to you, and says that if you come in the Stage, you will find Nanny at the Inn ready to wait on you hither. I am as ever, my dear good Girl, Your affectionate Friend

B Franklin

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