1From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 9 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I receiv’d your Letter of the 31st past, relating to the Term of Bills to be drawn on me from Amsterdam. I enter’d into the Engagement with Mr Laurens for the Payment of those Bills, on the Promise that they were to be made payable at Six Months sight. Mr Neuville senr. who was here with Mr Laurens about that time, made no Objection to the Term that I...
2From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 28 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives Since my Acceptance of your Bills I have applied to the Ministers for more Money to discharge the other Engagements I enter’d into for Payment of the Congress Bills drawn on Holland and Spain. I find so much Difficulty and even Impossibility of obtaining it at this Time, that I am under the absolute Necessity of...
3From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson: Two Letters, 5 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
(I) ALS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress; (II) ALS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I have this Instant received your Letter of the 2d. urging the Delivery of the Money. I must be Short in my Reply, as your Express waits. Col. Laurens indeed obtained a Promise of Ten Millions to be raised by a Loan in...
4From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 6 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received and answer’d two of your Expresses Yesterday Morning, and in the Evening I recd. a third Letter from you, all dated the 2d Inst. In this last you tell me, “that I must be sensible I cannot have the Disposal of the Money, as it was obtained without either my Knowledge or Concurrence by Col. Lawrens,...
5From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 10 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress Last Night I received your 4th Letter on the Same Subject. You are anxious to carry the Money with you, because it will re-animate the Credit of America. My Situation & long Acquaintance with Affairs relating to the public Credit enables me, I think, to judge better than you can do, who are a Novice in them, what Employment of it will most conduce to...
6From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 16 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received yours of Sept. 26. from Corunna. The Conduct of Gillon tho’ it provokes does not surprise me. I have not yet the second Letter you promise me, but in the mean time have wrote to Mr Jay & have obtain’d a Letter from M. le Comte de Vergennes to the French Ambassador at Madrid, requesting them to assist you in what they can, for securing the...