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From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 7 May 1774

To Deborah Franklin

AL (fragment): American Philosophical Society

London, May 7. 1774

My dear Child

It is now a very long time indeed since I have had the Pleasure of a Line from you.5 I hope however that you are well as I am, Thanks to God. [Remainder missing.]

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. Her last extant letter was the previous October: XX, 449–50.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 7 May 1774
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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 7 May 1774,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0098. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 21, January 1, 1774, through March 22, 1775, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, p. 210.]

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