1To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Nairne, 19 August 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Knowing the intimacy, & friendship subsisting between your Excellency, & my Brother, I presume to solicit your interest in my unhappy situation, nothing but the disstresses of my family, & the cruel advantages, the owners of the Ship I command’d, are taken, can excuse this liberty, & the certainty of being inevitably ruin’d, If I remain here much longer. If...