David Hall to Benjamin Franklin, March 5, 1760

Philada. March 5. 1760

Sir,

By the Captains Friend and Lowther to London and Captain Rankin to Bristol, I sent you the first, second and third Copies of a Bill of Exchange for £200 Sterling; some of which, if not all, must have got to your Hands long before this reaches you. 1 I am not sure whether I wrote you the Exchange of that Bill; but in case I did not, it was Fifty-two.

Inclosed I now send you the first Copy of another Bill of Exchange for £200 Sterling more; 2 which, with what I have before remitted you, since you left Philadelphia, makes in all Nineteen Hundred Forty-nine Pounds, Twelve Shillings, and Five Pence Sterling. 3 For the Receipt of this last, you will please advise me, as usual, and give me Credit for it, when paid. The Exchange of this last Fifty-four.

I have wrote you so often lately, and hear so seldom from you, that I have nothing new or material to say; but must own that I was a good Deal surprised, on not receiving a single Line from you by the November or December Mails into New-York, nor by the Friendship, Captain McClelland, who arrived here from London Monday last, was a Week 4 . Your Reason for so long Silence, I am at a Loss to conceive. Wish the Fount of Brevier for the News Advertisements, (if we are to have one) was come; the old Letter is shockingly bad, and I don’t care to use the Bourjois, 5 for the Reason I have several times given you, that it drives out so much. 6 Wish you would send a Receipt for all the Bills sent you on a separate Piece of Paper, in your next Letter, and am Yours most sincerely

D. Hall

To Mr. Franklin. By the Wolfe, Capt. McKinly, to Dublin 7