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1 had no line from you by this last Packet, but find with Pleasure
by yours to Mr. Todd that you and yours are well.
The affair of the Patent is in good Train and we hope, if new Difficulties
unexpected do not arise, we may get thro’ it as soon as the Board meet. We
are glad you made no Bargain [torn] your Share and hope none of our Partners
[torn] do any such thing; for the Keport of such a Bargain before the Business
is completed might overset the whole.
Mr. Colden has promised by this Packet that we shall certainly have the
Accounts by the next. If they do not come I think we shall be blamed, and he
Me be superseded; For their Lordships our masters are incensed with the long
elay.
1 hope you have by this time examined our private Accounts as you promised,
and satisfyd yourself that I did, as I certainly did, pay you that Ballance of
about 3894 in my own wrong. It would relieve me of some uneasiness to have
the Matter settled between us, as it is a Sum of Importance and in case of Death
might be not so easily understood as while we are both living.
With love to my Daughter and best Wishes of Prosperity to you both, and
to the little one, 1 am ever my dear Friend
Yours most affectionately
B. FRANKLIN
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