551Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 20 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society In expectation of hearing from you I have only at present to...
552Francis Coffyn to the American Commissioners, 27 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The letter I had the honnor of writing to you the 20th....
553To Benjamin Franklin from Stephen Sayre, 27 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Harvard University Library I address you not as a Commissioner for America, but as a man of...
554To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Bouvier, 18 January 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Paris, January 18, 1778, in French: Messrs. de Gouault &...
555From Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library; transcript: Library of Congress I receiv’d yours of the 18th and...
556To Benjamin Franklin from ——— de Gimat, 19 January 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Vic Fezensac, January 19, 1778, in French: M. de Gimat, an...
557To Benjamin Franklin from William Lee, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society; copy: Virginia Historical Society Mr. Lee presents his...
558Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 25 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Virginia Library M. Peltier has recvd. his Instructions from M. Montieu, but...
559To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Goudar, 1 January 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Aubenas, January 1, 1778, in French: A select company in...
560To Benjamin Franklin from La Rochefoucauld, 26 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai reçu, Monsieur, votre billet du 17. et j’ai appris avec...
561To Benjamin Franklin from E. Thornton, 1 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I Received a Letter yesterday from Mr. Thornton with the...
562Gérard to the American Commissioners, 2 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Translation reprinted from Jared Sparks, ed., The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American...
563To Benjamin Franklin from Ebenezer Smith Platt, 27 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I beg leave to make you an humble tender of my most Sinceer,...
564The American Commissioners to Franco and Adrianus Dubbeldemuts, 3 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Connecticut Historical Society Mr. Dorsius of Charlestown South Carolina is a Gentleman we...
565Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 11 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Virginia Library I send inclosed the agreement made with the proposed Captain...
566To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 13 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Though our correspondence be interrupted by the most unhappy...
567To Benjamin Franklin from Nicolas Ruault, 12 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Ruault a l’honneur de saluer Monsieur franklin et de lui...
568To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 14 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library; AL (draft): Yale University Library You will be...
569Conrad-Alexandre Gérard to the American Commissioners, 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: American Philosophical Society, Library of Congress Once the news of Saratoga arrived,...
570To Benjamin Franklin from Courtney Melmoth, [8 January 1778] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Dubourg yesterday gave me a second notice that you were...
571From Benjamin Franklin to the Massachusetts Board of War: Extract, 17 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Goodspeed’s Catalogue, no. 517 (1963), pp. 50–1. I was much oblig’d by your Favour...
572To Benjamin Franklin from John Paul Jones, 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Harvard University Library I take the liberty of inclosing two introductory letters...
573To Benjamin Franklin from James Babson, 12 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : National Archives This Days post from Nantes brought me the Disagrable a Counts of the sea...
574Dumas to the American Commissioners, 10 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; AL (incomplete draft): Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague Je...
575François-Auguste-Pompée Hennet to the American Commissioners, 26 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society M. hennet a l’honneur de saluer Messieurs Francklin et Deane...
576To Benjamin Franklin from Johann Wilhelm Abraham Jaeger, 20 December 1777: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Frankfurt-on-Main, December 20, 1777, in French: I have a...
577John Paul Jones to the American Commissioners, 27 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have the honor to inform you that from Paris I reached...
578To Benjamin Franklin from Catharine Greene, 28 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have this moment heard of an oppertunity of Writeing to...
579From Benjamin Franklin to [Robert Morris?], 21 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Yale University Library I remember that long before I was ordered here, you once did me the...
580To Benjamin Franklin from Courtney Melmoth, 28 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Were it likely to suppose that the human mind, however...
581John Ross to the American Commissioners, 26 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Extract and transcript of extract: National Archives The Ship three friends ownd by Mr. Williams...
582William Lee to the American Commissioners, 20 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Virginia Historical Society As you have now furnish’d me with the copy of the Treaty, I do...
583From Benjamin Franklin to [Samuel Cooper], 27 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: University of California Library, Berkeley; transcript: Massachusetts Historical Society At...
584To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Grand, [c. 25 November 1777?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Mr. Hy. Grand is come up to pay his most humble Respects...
585To Benjamin Franklin from Claude Julien, 1 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je m’estimeray bien heureux si vous récévés avec bonté...
586Franklin’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...
587James Moylan to the American Commissioners, 2 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I had the honor of advising you the 29th. ultimo of the...
588To Benjamin Franklin from Ferdinand Weisheim, 10 February 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Cologne, February 10, 1778, in French: I have waited for a...