From Jane Mecom
MS not found; extract reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., The Works of Benjamin Franklin, VII (Boston, 1838), 515 n.
[October 23, 1767]

Sorrows roll upon me like the waves of the sea. I am hardly allowed time to fetch my breath. I am broken with breach upon breach, and I have now, in the first flow of my grief, been almost ready to say, “What have I more?” But God forbid, that I should indulge that thought, though I have lost another child. God is sovereign, and I submit.

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