From Ferdinand John Paris
Copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
[December 1-7?, 1758]
Sir

The Readyness with which the Proprietarys of Pennsylvania receive any application, which is but sayd to come from the House of Representatives, induced them to accept and to send an Answer, to a very extraordinary Paper, which You deliver’d to them.

In that Answer, which you have been pleased to call Proposals, You have been acquainted with the Proprietarys Intention, to write to the House of Representatives, from whom the Proprietarys will always, be willing to receive any Representation, and to give it a full, and candid Consideration.

They have, since, wrote to the House, what seemed to them to be proper, on this Occasion, and therefore cannot conceive it will answer any good purpose, to continue a Corrispondence with a Gentleman, who has already acknowledged his Want of Power to conclude proper Measures.

Endorsed: Copy Proprietary Answer to Mr Franklins Letter of the 28th Novr 1758 desiring an Explanation of their Answer to the Heads of Complaint. No 214.
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