From Benjamin Franklin to Félix Vicq d’Azyr, 1 March 1784
To Félix Vicq d’Azyr
ALS: Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris
Passy, March 1. 1784
Sir,
I should be very happy to be present at the Reading of your Eloges of Messrs Sanchez & Hunter;3 but my Indisposition, the Stone, makes it extreamly inconvenient to me to use a Carriage on the Pavement, or to be confined long in a Room, so that I cannot have the Pleasure you propose to me so kindly of meeting the Society whom I highly respect, on Tuesday. With great Esteem I have the honour to be Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant
B Franklin
M. Vicq d’azyr
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
3. At the public meeting of the Société royale de médecine the next day, March 2. Vicq d’Azyr had invited BF to the meeting on Feb. 25; see XLI, 583–4.