1From Benjamin Franklin to Gérard de Rayneval, 5 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Herewith you will receive the Letters you write for. But as I purpose to send them, or Copies of them, to the Congress, agreable to the Request of the Count de Vergennes, and have not yet had time to copy them; I suppose you will return them to me. I have the Honour to be &c Above, Aug. 4. On Aug. 7 Gérard de Rayneval wrote BF , enclosing three letters and promising...