I received your Favour of June 22d by Mr. Finlay and shall be glad of an opportunity of rendering him any service on your Recommendation. There does not at present appear to be any Disposition in the Board to appoint a Riding Surveyor, nor does Mr. Finlay seem desirous of such an Employment. Everything at the Office remains as when I last wrote only the Impatience for the Accounts seems increasing. I hope they are in the October Packet now soon expected agreeable to Mr. Colden’s last promise. I spent a Fortnight lately at West Wycomb with our good master Lord Le Despencer and left him well. The Board has begun to act again and I hope our Business will again go forward. My love to my Daughter concludes from Your affectionate Friend and humble servant B. F. There is a letter to Foxcroft in the Library of the State Department, Washington, 11 R, 8, dated London, December 2, 1772, which need not perhaps be given in full, because Franklin sends love to his daughter and then crosses it out as follows: I can now only add my Love to my Daughter and best Wishes of Happiness to you and yours from Dear Friend Yours most affectionately B. FRANKLIN. He apparently struck out the words “Love to my Daughter and” because they were in effect included in the best wishes and happiness which followed. Library of State Department, Washington, 11 R, 63: LONDON Mar. 3, 73 MR. FOXCROFT, Dear Friend-- I am favoured with yours of June 5, and am glad to hear that you and yours are well. The Flour and Bisket came to hand in good order. I am much obliged to you and your brother for your care in sending them. I believe I wrote you before that the Demand made upon us on Acct. of the Packet Letters was withdrawn as being without Foundation. As to the Ohio Affair we are daily amused with Expectations that it is to be compleated at this and T’other time, but I see no Progress made in it. And I think more and more that I was right in never placing any great dependence on it. Mr. Todd has received your 200£. Mr. Finlay sailed yesterday for New York. Probably you will have seen him before this comes to hand. You misunderstood me if you thought I meant in so often mentioning our Acct. to press an immediate Payment of the Ballance. My Wish only was, that you would inspect the Account and satisfy yourself that I had paid you when here that large supposed Ballance in my own wrong. If you are now satisfied about it and transmit me the Account you promise with the Ballance stated I shall be easy and you will pay it when convenient. With my Love to my Daughter &c I am ever Dear Friend Yours most affectionately B. FRANKLIN Bigelow’s “Works of Franklin,” vol. v. p. 201: LONDON, 14 July, 1773. TO MR. FOXCROFT.