Letter from Sally Bache to her son, William Bache, discussing family matters. Sally mentions William's sister Eliza [Elizabeth Franklin Bache] gave birth to a boy, his brother Richard continues to sleepwalk, and congratulates William on his newborn son.
Richard Bache writes to Benjamin Franklin. He describes the disruption of letters between America and France by the British. Bache describes unsuccessful General Howe's attempts to draw G. Washington into an engagement. He then turns to family matters, telling Franklin that he is bringing his family back to Philadelphia shortly. In part, this decision, he says, is made because Sarah Franklin Bache is pregnant and cannot "be accommodated on this occasion where she is now."; American Philosophical Society
