148 ADDENDUM. 



July 16. 1753. Franklin sends his "respects to all our 

 old friends of the Junto " 



In one to the same from London dated September 

 16. 1758, he gives the characters of Potts and Parsons 

 two of the old members lately dead. 



Writing to the same from London Feb y . 26. 1761 

 he says ' ' You tell me you some times visit the ancient 

 Junto I wish you would do it oftener. I know they 

 all love & respect you, & regret your absenting your- 

 self so much * * * Since we have held that Club till 

 we are grown gray together let us hold it out to the 

 end" &c 



Again, July 7. 1765 he writes "I wish you would 

 continue to meet the Junto, notwithstanding some 

 effects of our public political misunderstandings may 

 sometimes appear there. It is now perhaps one of the 

 oldest Clubs, as I think it was formerly one of the 

 best in the King's dominions. It wants but about two 

 years of being forty since it was established" 



2 And finally Feb y 27, 1766 He says "Kemember 

 me affectionately to the Junto" 



This is the last mention I find of tlie Old Club It is 

 possible it subsisted a few years longer that it may 

 have welcomed to its meetings its Founder on his 

 return from England, & enjoyed with him before its 

 extinction, a few more of those agreeable evenings to 



2 The letters from which the above extracts are taken are very 

 interesting I had the good fortune to procure most of them for Mr 

 Sparks. 



