1To Benjamin Franklin from John Winthrop, 28 February 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I do most sincerely congratulate you on your safe arrival in France. Tho’ nothing ever gave me greater pleasure than to hear you had undertaken a Commission in which America is so deeply interested, and which could not well have been executed without you, yet I must own I was in great pain for your safety in so long a voyage, and exposed, as you were, to...