311From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, 15 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Katherine N. Bradford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1956) I received your kind Letter of July 22. I wish you had executed your Project of taking a little Trip to see me this Summer. You would have made me very happy,—and might have bath’d your Children here as well as at Southampton, I having a Bath in my House, besides the River in view.— I like your motherly Account of them, and in...
312Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts (Franklin Papers)
The following accounts, identified in previous volumes, cover the period of this volume: VI and VII ( XXIII , 21); XVII ( XXXVI , 3); XIX and XXII ( XXVIII , 3–4); XXV, XXVII ( XXXII , 3–4); XXX ( XXXVI , 3). We offer here a summary of items that have not found a place elsewhere in our annotation but provide insights into Franklin’s private and public life. Account XVII (Franklin’s Private...