Benjamin Franklin Papers

From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Partridge, 1 February 1757

To Richard Partridge5

Draft: American Philosophical Society

[February 1, 1757]6

Sir

It is long since I had any of your Favours. I should now have wrote you a long Letter, but that the House have desired the Speaker and myself to go immediately home in order to get our Differences with the Proprietaries Settled some way or other, and tis probable that one of us will soon have the Pleasure of seeing and conferring with you fully on all our Affairs. A Box goes in this Ship directed to Mr. Charles, in which are all our late Papers and your Appointment as Agent under the great Seal, &c. I am very respectfully, Sir, Your most humble Servant

BF

Mr. Patridge

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5On Richard Partridge, co-agent with Robert Charles, see above, V, 11.

6This draft is on the same page as the last part of BF’s of this date to Robert Charles, which supplies the date and explains the matters mentioned in it.

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