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therefore only add, that I am as desirous of his 
acquaintance and intimacy as he was of my opinion. 
I am, with much esteem, 
Your obliged friend, 
B. FRANKLIN.? 
t The name of the person to whom this letter is addressed is not 
known. The letter, to which it is a reply, appears to have contained 
the letter of some third person equally unknown. 
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