Thomas Percival to Benjamin Franklin, 12 May 1782
From Thomas Percival
AL: American Philosophical Society
Manchester May 12. 1782.
Doctor Percival requests the honour of Doctor Franklin’s acceptance of the inclosed Volumes, as Memorials of his cordial Esteem and respect.—7
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. This is Percival’s first extant letter since January, 1775: XXI, 446. The volumes he enclosed were probably his A Father’s Instructions (for which see XXXVI, 288n) and the first edition of its sequel, A Socratic Discourse on Truth and Faithfulness … (Warrington, 1781).