David Hartley to Benjamin Franklin, August 4, 1784

Rue Caumartin Wednesday morning Aug 4 1784

My Dear friend

I have not recd any letters from England—but I hear that a continuation of the Amern bill is passed. 3 That is all the news that I hear— My leg has been very bad again. I now write in bed. I have been confined for these last four days almost entirely to my bed & mattrass. The pain now begins again to abate.— Your ever affecte

D H

To Dr Franklin &c &c &c