To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Hewson, 2 July 1780
From Mary Hewson
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Cheam July 2. 1780
My dear Sir
Time will not permit to give you more than a hasty line. Accept the resemblance I send you of one whom you esteemed, and do me the favour to give one to Mlle. Beeheron, and another to M. Dubourg.7 I feel so much the honour of the reception he gave to the books that it makes me presume upon this being no unacceptable present.
Your affectionate
Mary Hewson
When you have an opportunity be so kind as to send the fourth copy to Mr Williams.
Addressed: Dr Franklin
7. She was sending a print of her late husband, Dr. William Hewson, who had died in 1774: XXI, 209n; BF to Mary Hewson, Dec. 7, 1780, APS. Marie-Catherine Biheron was an old friend of Polly and her mother; Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (who had died in December, 1779) had offered high praise for Polly’s translation of his Petit Code de la raison humaine: XXVI, 91n, 361; XXXI, 237n, 361n.