Docno: ADMS-06-12-02-0122
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 1782-01-11
[dateline] Passy, Jan. 11. 1782
[salute] Sir
Your Excellency will see by the within
1 the Situation I am in, and will thence judge how far it may be proper for you to
accept farther Drafts on Mr Laurens, with any Expectation of my enabling you to pay
them, when I have not only no Promise of more Money, but an absolute Promise that
I shall have no more. I shall use my Endeavours however, but am not sure of Succeeding,
as we seem to have done what I long fear’d we should do, tir’d out our Friends by
our endless Demands to pay Drafts unexpected and boundless. With the Million mentioned
I can continue paying to the End of February, and then, if I get no more, must shut
up Shop. I have the honour to be, with great Respect, Sir, Your Excellency’s most
obedient and most humble Servant