To William Franklin
Extract: reprinted from Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, I (1853), 126.
[July 26, 1765]

No public business can go on till the ministry is established; we have, however, so many friends among the ins, that we think of endeavoring, if they continue, to get a repeal of the Stamp Act. No endeavor of mine shall be wanting, but I have not much hopes, such things once done are seldom given up.

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