On this day 250 years ago, Sarah Franklin Bache wrote her father Benjamin Franklin in London that she was “much disapointed at your not coming home this Fall.” Franklin was serving as the agent of the American colonies in London and was working to convince the British Government to change its policies oppressing the Colonies.

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