From Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (unpublished)
Dear Sir

are you engaged next Wednesday. If you are not and your business permit you to dine out I’ll make you a proposal. That is to go to Epinay. There will be musick and the ladies who dined at your House friday invited me in a puffing manner to go there and they had invited you to, if they had not been afraid of importunity. I am Sure you will oblige them and Surprise them very agreably if you accept of my Proposal. Dear Doctor a word of answer Sunday morning—

Addressed: To / The honourable Dr Franklin
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