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From Benjamin Franklin to Gérard de Rayneval, 8 March 1781

To Gérard de Rayneval

Copy: Library of Congress

Passy, March 8. 1781

Sir,

I am honour’d with your Letter of this Day and shall accordingly take Care to be with M. le Comte de Vergennes before 10. o Clock on Saturday next.8 Be pleased to present my Respects to his Excellency, & belive me to be with perfect Esteem. Sir,

M. de Rayneval.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Rayneval’s letter is missing. What transpired at the March 10 meeting is described in the notation to BF’s March 6 letter to Vergennes, above.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to Gérard de Rayneval, 8 March 1781
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    Gérard de Rayneval, Joseph-Mathias
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    8 March 1781

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Gérard de Rayneval, 8 March 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-34-02-0326. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 34, November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998, p. 428.]

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