From Benjamin Franklin to William Hodgson, 31 October 1781
To William Hodgson
AL (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Library of Congress, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
Passy Oct. 31. 1781
Dear Sir,
I have ordered another Sum into your hands for the Prisoners,9 and will keep you constantly supply’d so as that you may furnish them with a Shilling each per Week from the middle of November to the Middle of March.
I hear nothing from Digges. Do you know what is become of him?
I am infinitely oblig’d to you and your Friends at Plymouth & Portsmouth for your kind Care of our poor People. I beg the Continuance of it. I wish it was in my Power to supply those honest brave patient Fellows more liberally. I will endeavour, if possible, to make their Winter Allowance 18 pence.
With great and sincere Esteem, I am ever, Dear Sir,
Mr Wm Hodgson Mercht. Colman Street, London
9. On Nov. 5 Grand recorded a payment of £400 (9,307 l.t., 15 s., 3 d.) to Hodgson: Account XXVII (XXXII, 4).