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From Benjamin Franklin to John Bondfield, 18 March 1779

To John Bondfield

Copy: Library of Congress

Passy Mar. 18 1779

Sir

I received your favours of the 6 & 9 inst. & thank you for the Intelligence they Contain. I hope generals Clinton & Thomson will give a good Acct. of the Invaders of Georgia.3 But if they should remain there till the end of the summer, a general fever at least will do a great Deal towards demolishing them. With much Esteem I am &ca

M. Bondfield.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Surely BF wished for a good account from Benjamin Lincoln, not Sir Henry Clinton, and the copyist made an error.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to John Bondfield, 18 March 1779
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    18 March 1779

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to John Bondfield, 18 March 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-29-02-0112. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 29, March 1 through June 30, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, p. 150.]

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