 But while she was there, she met a lot of prominent gentry, the Earl of Dartmouth at the time and Brooke Watson, another supporter of hers who would later become the mayor of London. Benjamin Franklin actually had been in London around that time, and he actually called upon her. He heard about Phyllis Wheatley, and he came, and he ended up writing a letter to another friend of his, like, I visited the young mistress of Phyllis Wheatley and tried to, you know,