From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 7 May 1774
To Deborah Franklin
AL (fragment): American Philosophical Society
London, May 7. 1774
My dear Child
It is now a very long time indeed since I have had the Pleasure of a Line from you.5 I hope however that you are well as I am, Thanks to God. [Remainder missing.]
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
5. Her last extant letter was the previous October: XX, 449–50.