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Dear Sir, You are a very good Correspondent, which I do not deserve, as I am a bad one. 9 The Truth is, I have too much Business upon my hands, a great deal of it foreign to my Function as a Minister, which interferes with my writing regularly to my Friends.
Just before leaving America for England, Benjamin Franklin dashed off this eight-page letter to John Lining, a physician who had immigrated from Scotland. Lining lived in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina, a pestilential swamp regularly visited by yellow fever epidemics.
Thus, the letter was a diplomatic cover-up by Benjamin Franklin to ensure that the King of France and his people did not withdraw their Alliance with the US at that crucial moment.
The main purpose of writing the letter Einstein to Franklin Roosevelt was to alert him about the Nazis. He warn that the Nazis were working on a strong and new weapon that could make an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard encouraged Einstein to transmit the letter and supported him in preparing it.