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1Mrs. R. W. Viny to Margaret Stevenson, 17 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Editors now and then encounter a document that seems designed to train them in humility, and the one below is a case in point. The circumstances surrounding Mrs. Stevenson’s and Franklin’s projected visit to the Vinys are as obscure, thanks to the writer’s prose, as they are insignificant. But the letter does throw some light on how acquaintances of humble...