Volume II Part 10 (1/2)
”_To Mrs D Franklin_
”Guadenhathen, January 25, 1756
”MY DEAR CHILD,
”This day e arrived here; I wrote to you the same day, and once since We all continue well, thanks be to God We have been hindered with bad weather, yet our fort is in a good defensible condition, and we have every dayTwo more are to be built, one on each side of this, at about fifteen miles' distance I hope both will be done in a week or ten days, and then I purpose to bend my course homeward
”We have enjoyed your roast beef, and this day began on the roast veal; all agree that they are both the best that ever were of the kind Your citizens, that have their dinners hot and hot, know nothing of good eating; we find it in reater perfection when the kitchen is fourscore -room
”The apples are extremely welcome, and do bravely to eat after our salt pork; the minced pies are not yet cos expected up from Bethlehem on Tuesday; the capillaire is excellent, but none of us having taken cold as yet, we have only tasted it
”As to our lodging, 'tis on deal feather beds, in wared at our inn the first night after we left ho about to put very damp sheets on the bed, we desired her to air them first; half an hour afterward she told us the bed was ready and the sheets _well aired_ I got into bed, but ju them as cold as death, and partly frozen She had _aired_ thee_ I was forced to wrapelse about the bed was shockingly dirty
”As I hope in a little tis over, I now only add that I am, dear Debby, your affectionate husband,
”B FRANKLIN”
”_To the sa, November 13, 1756
”MY DEAR CHILD,
”I wrote to you a few days since by a special er, and enclosed letters for all our wives and sweethearts, expecting to hear from you by his return, and to have the northern newspapers and English letters per the packet; but he is just now returned without a scrap for poor us So I had a good mind not to write to you by this opportunity; but I never can be ill-natured enough, even when there is the er says he left the letters at your house, and saw you afterward at Mr Dentie's, and told you when he would go, and that he lodged at Honey's, next door to you, and yet you did not write; so let Goody Sment, and say what should be done to you; I think I won't tell you that we are well, nor that we expect to return about the middle of the week, nor will I send you a word of news; that's poz
My duty to mother, love to the children, and to Miss Betsey and Gracey, &c, &c
”B FRANKLIN
”PS--I have _scratched out the loving words_, being written in haste by ry_”
[Transcriber's Note: Unreadable word after ”I forgot”]
”_Mrs Jane Mecom, Boston_
New-York, April 19, 1757
”DEAR SISTER,