1To Benjamin Franklin from Anna Maria Shipley, 7 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I cannot resist the inclination I have to assure you how interest’d we alwaies must feel about a friend whom we have so much loved & esteem’d & whom we now so much admire— It gave us great uneasiness to hear you had the Gout but we hope it will secure you a long long series of health hereafter. The Genel: Verdiery who breakfast’d with us this Morng. told me...