From Charles Churchill (unpublished)
Bennet St. (No. 5.) West—July 31. 1783.
May it please Your Excellency,

I shall esteem it a particular favor if you will honor me with some kind of an answer to my last:

If you are not inclined to grant the whole of my request, suffer me to intreat you to afford me some aid.

If you will vouchsafe thus to assist an unhappy distant Stranger, it may so happen in the course of things, that I may have an opportunity to thank you in person. I am, most respectfully Your obedient servant,

C. Churchill.

Addressed: His Excellency Dr. Franklin, / Paris.
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