1From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 5 June 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have lately made a Journey of a Fortnight, to Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester and return’d only in time to be at Court on the King’s Birthday, which was yesterday. The Joy was in a fair way of being doubled on the same Day, for the Queen was deliver’d early this Morning of another Prince, the eighth Child, there being now six Princes and two...