From Charles Churchill (unpublished)
Bennet St. (No. 5.) West. Augst: 25th: 1783.
May it please Your Excellency

Pray pardon my being so troublesome. Encouraged to hope that a multiplicity of business of the utmost importance, has alone prevented you from honoring me with some kind of an answer to my two last; I am embolden’d to address you again, to request a reply, and to assure Your Excellency, that if you will vouchsafe to afford me some little pecuniary assistance, I shall duly remembered such proof of your liberality. I am, with the most unfeigned esteem, Your Excellency’s, most obedient servant.

C. Churchill

nb. I beg the honor of a line—even if it proves a refusal.
Addressed: A / His Excellency Dr. Franklin, / Paris.
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