Benjamin Franklin Papers - From Jonathan Rumford (unpublished)

I have not run with the Croud to bid you welcome To your native land although I Saw you in france, Exerting Your great abilities in favour of your native Country and mine. In 1777 it was Reported you had Sent to Congress a packett All Clean Sheets of paper. I now transmit to your Excellency Something Similar hoping your Self and our late worthy Commander in Chief will now in the advanced periods of life Fill them; you are the two the only two on whome the People now depend. I have the honour to be Your most humble Servant

n b. It is Expected the gentlemen who are now in Convention Will in in honour to them Selves and to the benefit of the States Declare a loud they will Ere they brake up See That we Comeply with their treaty we have mad with not Only briton but all other powers when this is done justly may We demand of them and not till Then faith and Confidence Seems in a great measure to have left the americans. I hope you will do me the honour To Shew this to his Excellency George Washington His Excellency Benjamin Franklin