1To Benjamin Franklin from John Sargent, 1 June 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It must seem strange to You, that You should not have had an answer from me to a Letter that You favourd me with so long agoe as the 27th of Jany last— But it is owing to a strange Concurrence of unlucky Incidents— In the first place, the Post master of 7 Oaks, the most negligent in his Line of Christendom,—it coming in my Absence,—let it lay in his Office,...