Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bennett Lloyd, 13 July 1778

From Richard Bennett Lloyd

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Chaillot. Monday July 13th. 78.

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Gibbes and Miss Stevens have just got a copy of the Act passed in Sth. Carolina relative to Absentees.2 They and Mrs. Lloyd propose waiting on you and Mr. Adams this Evening should you be disengaged. I am, Dear Sir, with much respect your obedient and very humble Servant

Richard Btt. Lloyd

Addressed: Doctor Franklin / &c. &c. &c.

Notation: R.B Lloyd. July 13. 1778.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2The two women and the act are identified in XXVI, 684–5.

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