If  it  should  please  God,  that  he  leaves  us  before  my  return,
I   would   have   the    postoffice  remain   under   the    manage-


*  Peter  Franklin,  the  last  survmng  brother  of  Dr.  Franklin,  died  July  ist,
1766,  in  the  seventy-fourth  year  of  his  age.  He  had  formerly  resided  at
Newport.  Rhode  Island ;  but,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  deputy  post-
master in  Philadelphia. — S.
>Et.  6o.]  presents    to  HIS  WIFE  5  £  3

ment  of  their  son,  till  Mr.  Foxcroft  and  I  agree  how  to
settle  it.
There  are  some  droll  prints  in  the  box,  which  were  given
me  by  the  painter,  and,  being  sent  when  I  was  not  at  home,
were  packed  up  without  my  knowledge.  I  think  he  was
wrong  to  put  in  Lord  Bute,  who  had  nothing  to  do  with
the  Stamp  Act.  But  it  is  the  fashion  to  abuse  that  noble-
man, as  the  author  of  all  mischief.
