Thomas Townshend to Benjamin Franklin, October 23, 1782

Whitehall, 23d. October 1782.

Sir,

As Mr. Strachey is going from hence to Paris with some particulars for Mr Oswald, which were not to be easily explained in Writing, I take the liberty of introducing him to your acquaintance, though I am not sure, that he is not already a little known to you. 9

The confidential Situation in which he stands with me, makes me particularly desirous of presenting him to you.

I believe, Sir, I am enough known to you for you to believe me when I say that there has not been from the beginning a single Person more averse to the unhappy War, or who wishes more earnestly than I do for a return of Peace and mutual Amity between Great Britain & America.

I am &ca.

T: Townshend

Doctor Franklin