To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [1779?]
From Lafayette
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Friday Morning [1779?]6
I Must Beg Your Pardon, My dear Sir, for My not Having the Honor to Waït Upon You this Morning But I Had the fever all Night and phisicians forbid My Going out Before diner. In Case I am Better, I Will do Myself the Honor to Waït Upon You to Morrow about one in the Morning, and in the Mean While I Have the Honor to Be Very Respectfully Your obt Hble Sert
Lafayette
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
6. The earliest probable date.