From Le Roy
Thursday morning [January 9, 1777?]

My dear doctor, I am sending to hear news of your cold. Yesterday evening I wanted to come see you, but I could not find a carriage due to the cold.

I hope that M. Deane is improving. You know how much I am sincerely attached to you for life.

Le Roy

Yesterday I read a memoir that was meant for you but at present the author is suffering cruelly from gout. The views expressed in that memoir seem very good to me. I will have the honor and the pleasure of seeing you today.
Addressed: to Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin / at the hotel de Hambourg / rue Jacob