454 Letters from Benjamin Franklin 



To Dr. [John Fothergill]. 1762. December 8. Philadelphia. 



Arrived in Philadelphia and had the happiness of finding his family 

 well. The anatomical drawings and casts that he sent over arrived 

 safely at the [Pennsylvania] Hospital except the breaking of some of 

 the glasses which the Managers repaired.^ Congratulates him on the 

 taking of Havana. A. Dr. of L. S. i p. XLV, 25a. 



^ See History of the Pennsylvania Hospital, by T. G. Morton, Phila., 1897, p. 356. 



To [Edward] Nairne. 1762. December 8. Philadelphia. 



Requests to be informed whether he paid for the magnet. Asks him 

 if he could make a thermometer according to the enclosed directions 

 and to forward it to him. Mrs. [Margaret] Stevenson will pay for 

 it; his respects to Mr. [John] Canton. A. Dr. of L. S. i p. 



XLV, 25b. 

 To [Mrs. Deborah Franklin. Circa 1762.] 



Billy is down at Bath. Received a letter inviting him there, but must 

 not leave London as he daily expects bills drawn on him by the Trustees. 

 Shall be glad to receive an account of what is due on Mr. Spoffard's 

 mortgage, as he hopes to recover it from the sellers who never ac- 

 quainted him that such a mortgage subsisted, though they must have 

 known it. Shall soon send some music for the harpsichord. A. L. S. 

 2 p. (Upper half of sheet missing.) XLVI(ii), lOO. 



To . 1763. February 9. Philadelphia. 



His expenses and compensations while in England as Agent for 

 the Province of Pennsylvania. Difficulty of separating private from 

 public expenses. A. Dr. of L. S. 2 p. XLV, 26. 



Printed in Works (Bigelow, III, 229). 



To Dr. [John] Pringle and Mr. [William] Strahan. 



1763. February 22. Philadelphia. 



Thanks for congratulations on his son's promotion. Congratulates 

 him on the glorious peace that has been concluded, and which is the 

 most advantageous to Great Britain of any that history recorded. As 

 to the places left or restored to France he conceives that their strength 

 will soon increase to such a degree in North America that in any fu- 

 ture war they may reduce them all with ease and therefore looks 

 upon them as so many hostages or pledges of good behavior from that 



