Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Franklin, [May 1738?]

To Josiah Franklin

Incomplete draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

[May? 1738]

Honoured Father

I received your kind Letter of the 4th of May in answer to mine of April 13.4 I wrote that of mine with a Design to remove or lessen the Uneasiness you and my Mother appear’d to be under on Account of my Principles; and it gave me great Pleasure when she declar’d in her next to me that she approv’d of my Letter and was now satisfy’d with me.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. See above, p. 202. No letter has been found from either of BF’s parents in reply to his of April 13.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Franklin, [May 1738?]
    Author
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Recipient
    Franklin, Josiah
    Date
    1–31 May 1738

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Franklin, [May 1738?],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0039. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2, January 1, 1735, through December 31, 1744, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, p. 206.]

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