To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Bernard, 13 February 1764

From Francis Bernard

Letterbook copy: Harvard College Library

Boston Feb 13. 1764

Sir

I am favoured with yours of Jan 27.9 and have received one from my Son dated New York Feb 2 informing that being apprehensive of the badness of the Roads on the change of Weather, He had returned your Horse1 and intended to take his passage in the Newport packet boat with some other Gentlemen who were waiting for it. However He is not yet arrived.

I am extremely obliged to you for your Care in this business and shall be impatient till I have an opportunity to make some return. In regard to the charge, if it will be more convenient to you to have it paid at philadelphia, than to draw for it here, I shall soon have an opportunity of ordering it there. I shall wait your orders. I am

B Franklin Esq

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9. Not found.

1. BF sent his horse to convey Bernard’s son from Alexandria, Va., to Philadelphia, and the young man apparently rode it on to New York. See above, p. 6.

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Title: To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Bernard, 13 February 1764
Author: Bernard, Francis
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 13 February 1764

Reference

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Bernard, 13 February 1764,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-11-02-0015. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 11, January 1, through December 31, 1764, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 78–79.]

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