1John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 23 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...what Britain would offer Spain to remain neutral: Dull, French Navy, p. 114.
2John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 27 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...no official declaration of war was ever issued. Dull, French Navy, pp. 119–20.
3John Bondfield to the American Commissioners, 29 August 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
The failure of the French navy to provide convoy protection from port of departure to port...
4John Bondfield to the Commissioners, 8 September 1778 (Adams Papers)
French Navy and Amer. Independence