On this day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Thomas Cushing, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, that he was sending “the Report of the Committee of the [House of] Lords, which seems hard upon us, as every thing written by any Officer of Government is taken for undoubted Truth.”
On the same day Franklin wrote to his wife Deborah that “I hoped to have been on the Sea in my Return by this time, but find I must stay a few Weeks longer, perhaps for the Summer Ships.”
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