To Benjamin Franklin from Lady Dick, 12 October 1759
From Lady Dick
AL: American Philosophical Society
Prestonfild Octobr 12th [1759]
Lady Dicks Compliments to Doctor Franklen a good Journy to father and son, a happy meeting with Mrs. Franklin and Miss at Philadelphia,1
Addressed: To / Doctor Franklen
Endorsed: Lady Dick with a Purse
1. BF had probably told the Dicks of his hope to return to Philadelphia in a few months, as soon as his business pending before the Privy Council should be finished.
2. Scots for “full.” In his letter of Jan. 3, 1760, to Sir Alexander Dick BF sent his respectful compliments to Lady Dick and asked him to “assure her I have great faith in her parting-Prayers, that the Purse she honour’d me with will never be quite empty.” N.Y. Pub. Lib.
3. John Williamson of Moffat; see below, p. 445 n.