To Thomas Percival On my return to London I found your favour, of the sixteenth of May (1771). I wish I could, as you desire, give you a better explanation of the phaenomenon in question, since you seem not quite satisfied with your own; but I think we want more and a greater variety of…
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This World is the True Hell
To Jane Mecom Dear Sister London Dec. 30. 1770 This Ship staying longer than was expected, gives me an Opportunity of writing to you which I thought I must have miss’d when I desir’d Cousin Williams to excuse me to you. I received your kind Letter of Sept. 25 by the young Gentlemen, who, by…
Have You Then Got Ne’er A Grandmother?
To Deborah Franklin My dear Child, London, Oct. 3. 1770 I received your kind Letter of Aug. 16. which gave me a great deal of Satisfaction. I am glad your little Grandson recovered so soon of his Illness, as I see you are quite in Love with him, and your Happiness wrapt up in his;…
Hitherto Made No Attempt Upon My Virtue
To Mary Stevenson Hewson Dear Polly, London, July 18. 1770 Yours of the 15th. informing me of your agreable Journey and safe Arrival at Hexham gave me great Pleasure, and would make your good Mother happy if I knew how to convey it to her; but ’tis such an out-of-the-way Place she is gone to,…
The Sole Legislator of His American Subjects
To Samuel Cooper Dear Sir, London, June 8. 1770 I received duly your Favour of March 28. With this I send you two Speeches in Parliament on our Affairs by a Member that you know. The Repeal of the whole late Act would undoubtedly have been a prudent Measure, and I have reason to believe…