1From Benjamin Franklin to [the Marquise de Boulainvilliers], [1777?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Franklin presents his best Respects to the amiable Family of Passy, with many Thanks for their obliging Invitation to dine with them on Thursday which he and his Friends should embrace with the greatest Pleasure, but that they happen all to be engag’d. Mr. F. returns the Papers with Thanks, and will do himself the Honour of taking his Tea with his kind...
2From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquise de Boulainvilliers, 1 January 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Seth Kaller, Myron Kaller and Associates, Inc., Allenhurst, New Jersey (1989); AL (draft): American Philosophical Society Il me donne grand Plaisir, ma respectée Voisine, d’apprendre que nôtre chere & aimable Enfant doit étre bientôt mariée avec vôtre Approbation, & que nous ne seront pas cependant privés de sa Société. Je vous assure que je ne ferai aucune Usage de mes Paratonnerres...