From Alexander Colden
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<General Post Office, New York, July 7, 1773: Has received
Franklin’s letter of April 7 by the Lord Hyde, packet, and is
glad to know that the accounts sent on March 3 have arrived; had
hoped to hear by the Duke, packet, that they had been
approved, but did not. Encloses Willing & Morris’s second Bill on
Harris [Herries] & Co. for £15; the first went by the
Mercury, packet, on June 2. Also encloses the following first
bills: Archimedes Georges on Curtis & Lovell, merchants of
Bristol, for £113 sterling in favor of John Bours, endorsed by him
and Thomas Vernon; and Captain Norris Goddard on Anthony Todd for £69
in favor of Colden. His father, who visited him last Monday,
“Continues to Enjoy a Surprising State of health and flow of
Spirits,” and joins with him and David and Mrs. Colden in sending
sincere compliments.>
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