To Benjamin Franklin from Edward Bridgen, 10 June 1784
From Edward Bridgen
ALS: American Philosophical Society
London June 10 1784
At the request of Mr Champion I forward the Accompanying Book to your Excellency.4
Our Mutual & Worthy friend Mr Laurens leaves Bath this day for Falmouth to go with his Son for New York. May Heaven protect them and spare your Excellency’s long and useful life is the prayer of Dr Sir Yr: Excellency’s obliged & Faithful
Edwd: Bridgen
Not a line from Congress abt: the Copper Coin.5
Notation: Edward Bridgen. June 10. 1784.—
4. This was Considerations on the Present Situation of Great Britain and the United States of America, the second, expanded edition of Richard Champion’s report on Anglo-American commercial regulations (XL, 515). BF’s copy, now at the Huntington Library, was inscribed, “To His Excellency Benjamin Franklin &c &c &c. From the Author”.
5. For Bridgen & Waller’s proposals to supply the United States with copper coinage see XL, 629–30.