To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 4 August 1784
From David Hartley
ALS: Library of Congress
Rue Caumartin Wednesday morning Aug 4 1784
My Dear friend
I have not recd any letters from England—but I hear that a continuation of the Amern bill is passed.3 That is all the news that I hear— My leg has been very bad again. I now write in bed. I have been confined for these last four days almost entirely to my bed & mattrass. The pain now begins again to abate.— Your ever affecte
D H
To Dr Franklin &c &c &c
Addressed: To Dr Franklin / &c &c &c / Passy
Endorsed: D Hartley Esqr Aug. 4. 84 to BF.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
3. It had; see the annotation of Hartley’s letter of July 27.