Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Stevenson, 9 March 1766

From Mary Stevenson

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Sunday Morning March 9. 1766

My dear Sir

You will give us great pleasure if you will favour us with your company to day,3 our dinner shall be ready at any hour you will appoint, four o’clock will be as convenient to us as any other time; say you will come and you make us happy. My mother gave us hope that you might come to day, and thought it was the only one you could. I will flatter myself that I shall see you both this day, which is one of the highest pleasures that can be enjoy’d by Your dutiful and affectionate

M Stevenson

Addressed: To Dr / Franklin / Craven Street / in the / Strand

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Mary (Polly) Stevenson, daughter of BF’s landlady, was living with two aunts in Kensington.

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Stevenson, 9 March 1766,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-13-02-0062. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 13, January 1 through December 31, 1766, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969, p. 196.]