Benjamin Vaughan to Benjamin Franklin, December 29, 1776

Decr: 29h:, 1776

B. Vaughan presents his best respects to Dr: Franklin and incloses him some papers for perusal at his leisure . He sends them for several reasons. To shew, first, that neither his head nor his heart have been unoccupied upon the subject of America; to prove in the next place, under what disadvantages every man enters upon the subject, without information from thence; and to enable him also to judge of the confidence which Dr: Franklin is to repose in him. 6 The letters are the result of thought, but were for the most part committed to paper in haste; particularly No. 1 which he begs (if read at all) may be read last.