Benjamin Franklin to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, February 25, 1784

Passy Feb. 25. 1784

My dear Friend

Enclosed I send you a Letter and sundry Papers I lately recd from Mr. Eckhardt of Utrecht, 5 a most ingenious Mechanician whom I first knew in London. You will see what he desires, and what Answer I have made him. 6 If you can do him any Service, I need not pray you to do it, because you have a Pleasure in assisting Genius: Show if you please what he says of the Balloons, to Mr. Montgolfier. I long to see you, being ever Yours most affectionately

(signed) B. Franklin