Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, February 21, 1768

London, Feb. 21. 1768

My dear Sister,

I received your kind Letter of Dec. 1. 1 I condole with you affectionately once more on the grievous Affliction you have met with, praying God to make the rest of your Life more comfortable and happy.

I thank you for your Congratulations on my Daughter’s Marriage. She has pleas’d herself and her Mother, and I hope she will do well: but I think they should have seen some better Prospect than they have, before they married, how the Family was to be maintain’d. 2

It is a little unlucky that the Business you are fallen into, happens at present to be in disgrace with your Town Meeting: perhaps you may think of some other less exceptionable if their Resolutions continue and are regarded by the Ladies. 3 My Love to your Daughter, 4 and believe me ever Your affectionate Brother

B Franklin