551The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 3 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: National Archives We have just receivd...
552The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 8 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; two copies: Archivo Historico Nacional The...
553The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 26 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères We beg your Excellency’s Permission to make an...
554From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Walpole, 11 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : David Holland, London (1955) I ought long since to have acknowledg’d the Receipt of the...
555The American Commissioners to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 15 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Connecticut Historical Society, University of Virginia Library Yours by Capt. Nicholson...
556From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 30 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Frederick R. Kirkland, Philadelphia (1955) I have now receiv’d the Bill from Mr. Chaumont...
557The American Commissioners to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 10 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress We desire you would advance to Capt. Paul Jones, of the Ranger, five...
558From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 22 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: University of Virginia Library; eight copies, five incomplete: National Archives;...
559From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., [28 February? 1778] (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin . . . (10 vols., New York,...
560The American Commissioners to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 21 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Connecticut Historical Society You are desired to get from Capt. Adams a particular Account...
561From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Sr., 24 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from The New-York Mirror , April 13, 1839 The bearer, Mr. Holker, is a gentleman of...
562The American Commissioners to John Young, 2 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Connecticut Historical Society You will receive by Mr. Moylan dispatches for Congress,...
563Franklin’s Description of His Ailments, 17 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AD : Œsterreichische National-Bibliothek, Vienna A.B. aged near 72 Years, had been subject to...
564The American Commissioners: Contract with Rey de Morande, 31 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
DS and draft : American Philosophical Society We cannot explain this document. It is among...
565To Benjamin Franklin from J[ohn] C[arroll], 18 January 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Will you allow your fellow traveller to and from Canada to...
566The Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 6 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
DS : National Archives; copies in French and English: Massachusetts Historical Society, Harvard...
567Sir Philip Gibbes: Minutes of a Conversation with Franklin, 5 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Yale University Library This interview, the second within a year between the two men, was...
568Franklin’s Notes for Replying to Two Letters from Ralph Izard, [on or after 1 February 1778] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society This is a rare example of Franklin’s thinking on paper for...
569Certificate Authenticating Extracts from Minutes of the Georgia Assembly, 3 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I do hereby certify whom it may concern, that the Papers...
570Franklin on the Miracle of the Revolution, 25 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Richard Henry Lee, Life of Arthur Lee, LL.D., Joint Commissioner of the United...
571Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts, 1 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Of the accounts that we discussed at the beginning of the French period, the following are still...
572——— Troyes: Memorandum to Franklin and Deane for Antoine-Felix Wuybert, 30 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
D : American Philosophical Society Wuybert, who had held the responsible position of chief...
573William Stevenson and the American Commissioners: An Exchange of Three Letters, 4 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
(I) AL , (II) L , (III) AL : Harvard University Library We print the letters together because...
574Passport for Jan Ingenhousz, 17 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ADS : Yale University Library; ADS (draft): American Philosophical Society To all Commanders of...
575The Franco-American Treaty of Alliance, 6 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
DS : National Archives; copies in French and English: Massachusetts Historical Society, National...
576John Thornton’s Statement, 20 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Franklin trusted and esteemed William Carmichael. This document, if it...
577Nathan Dorsey: Two Receipts to the Commissioners, 21 October 1777: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AD : Library of Congress <Passy, October 21, 1777: Two identical receipts, each for 192 livres;...
578The American Commissioners: Instructions to John Thornton, [11 December 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Library of Congress, Harvard University Library The...
579The American Commissioners: Memorandum for the French and Spanish Courts, 23 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères, Archivo General de Simancas; DS (draft ):...
580The American Commissioners: A Public Announcement, 4 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
D : American Philosophical Society Jonathan Loring Austin had ridden post haste from Nantes with...
581Editorial Note on Undated Letters Assigned to 1777 (Franklin Papers)
The undated and, at least as yet, undatable material from the French years is massive. Taking...
582Editorial Note on Four Undated Letters from Madame Brillon, [1777?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society We summarize these brief notes here, on the highly...
583Franklin’s Copy of News Brought by Captain Jenkins, [c. 15 February 1778] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères The use of this news is an interesting example...
584A Proposed Article for the Treaty of Alliance with France, [on or before 27 January 1778] (Franklin Papers)
D : Library of Congress The commissioners met with Gérard on January 8 and agreed to negotiate...
585Certificate for Rolandeau, 13 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AD : Dartmouth College Library This may certify whom it may concern, that M. Rolandeau, a...
586Extract from a Boston Newspaper, [after 4 December 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AD : Cornell University Library In a Letter from Philadelphia, giving an Account of the Battle at...
587The American Commissioners’ Interview on January 8 with Gérard: Four Documents, 1778 (Franklin Papers)
This meeting, in Deane’s quarters in Paris at six in the evening of January 8, was the...
588Franklin’s Notes for a Dispatch, [before 28 November 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AD : University of Pennsylvania Library These jottings are beyond question an early step in...