From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun, 3 March 1757

To the Earl of Loudoun

ALS: Huntington Library

Philada. March 3. 1757.

My Lord,

I thank your Lordship for the Information you have been pleas’d to favour me with, relating to the Sailing of the Pacquets.1

It was intended that I should take Passage in the first; But I shall now wait your Lordship’s Arrival here, that if in any thing I can be of Service, I may be ready to obey your Lordship’s Commands; being, with the sincerest Respect and Attachment, My Lord, Your Lordship’s most obedient and most humble Servant

B Franklin

Endorsed: Mr. Frankland Philadelphia March 3d 1757
Rec March 6t

1. See above, p. 133.

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Title: From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun, 3 March 1757
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Recipient: Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of
Date: 3 March 1757

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Cite as: “From Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Loudoun, 3 March 1757,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-07-02-0052. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7, October 1, 1756 through March 31, 1758, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963, p. 143.]

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