From Benjamin Franklin Bache (unpublished)
Geneva 25 Feb 1783
My dear Grand Pappa

Full of Impatience to receive a letter from you in order to know the state of your health & whether you consent to my having a wathch as I Desir’d by my Last, I write yo the present Letter, to ask again that Favour and repeat to you that I have not receiv’d the Parcel of Books mention’d in your Letter of the 7 Jan. 1783. I have receiv’d Lately a letter from Mrs Montgomery to wish I have not yet answerd having had a sore hand. I have heard also By madame Cramer that you think of going to London as I should have a very great Desire of nowing those Contries, & being estremely fund of Voyagin and above all other reason being full of Impatience to see you. I ask of you as a particular favour to permit Me to go with You. You will lay under a great obligation Your Most Dutiful & Affectionate Grandson

B. Franin. Bache

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin Ministre / Plenipotentiaire des Etats unis / D’Amerique auprès de sa Majesté / très chretienne. / a Passy Près Paris.
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