From Benjamin Franklin to John Fothergill, 6 April 1755
To John Fothergill
AL: American Philosophical Society
Philada. April 6. 1755
Dear Sir
I am but just return’d from a long Journey, having been absent near [six months]. I find your Favour of Novr. [I, which I shall?] answer particularly per Reeve [who sails for London?] in about 10 Days. This [will only serve to bring?] Dr. Douglas’ Piece (and another) on the [one and a half lines missing] Copy, [one line missing].5 With [complimentary close]
[B Franklin]
Dr. Fothergill
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
5. Only a scrap of this letter survives, so that one cannot know whether BF was sending William Douglass’ “Piece” on scarlet fever, 1736, or his Summary … of the British Settlements in North-America, 1749–51, which was reprinted in London in June 1755. Gent. Mag., XXV (1755), 287.