1To Benjamin Franklin from Margaret Stevenson, 16 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I hope you and all your Dear family ar weel as to my Self, i am, in tolerable health but Confind to my Roome on acont my Leg wich is vere panfull a nights, but ho [oh? know?] if i could geat to America i should be hapey; but that is such a distant prospict that i fear never will be, so I shall never see you my Dearst freind, but only thinke and wish that I...