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