To Rodolphe-Ferdinand Grand (unpublished)
Philada. Oct. 24. 1788
My dear Friend,

The last Letter I have been favour’d [with?] from you is of the 5th of May: But I had the Pleasure of learning of your Welfare and that of the good Family, of a later Date, by your Letters to my Grandson. I sometime past receiv’d from Mr Ross the Sum you drew [?] upon him, with which you will therefore charge my Account: And I drew upon you in August last for Ten thousand Livres in favour of Mars ? ric & Co. and also for Twenty-five Pounds Sterling, in favour of Zantzinger, to supply the [Poi ] for the same Sum of the preceding year which came back protested.

I congratulate you on the Addition to your Family. I hope your young Brood will, [like] mine, be a Comfort to you in your old Age.

Our public Affairs are getting into good Order. I hope yours are in the same way. With sincere Esteem and Affection, I am Ever yours,

B Franklin

In the Heat of our Debates on the new Constitution, I wrote the enclos’d Paper: It is the only one I wrote on the Subject. It was said to have had some good Effect.
Mr Grand.
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