To Benjamin Franklin from Simon-Pierre Fournier le Jeune, 10 February 1779
From Simon-Pierre Fournier le Jeune6
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Paris le 10 fevrier 1779
Monsieur
J’ai eu l’honneur de vous Ecrire et vous envoyer la facture de Petit Romain que vous m’avés commandé et qui est actuellement prêt a partir. Marquez moi si vous voulés que je l’envoy chez vous. Sur votre réponse j’agirai en conséquence et vous me remettrés les fonds du montant comme nous sommes convenus honnorez moi d’une réponse Positive et vous prie en attendant de me croire avec la plus Parfaite Considération, Monsieur, Votre très humble et très obéissant serviteur
Fournier LE JEUNE
Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin / Passy
Notation: fournier Paris le 10 fr. 1779
6. This printer and supplier of type faces to BF (XXVII, 92n) had written the previous September that he had received the order for “Petit Romain”: XXVII, 392–3. The bill for that type, which Fournier here implies had been sent to BF recently, is undoubtedly the letter published in XXV, 577, which Fournier had clearly dated Feb. 3, 1778. We now believe he meant to write 1779; the amount of the bill, 470 l.t., 13 s., is the same amount as BF listed in his Cash Book as having been remitted to Fournier le jeune on Feb. 21, 1779, for type purchased by Capt. Niles on behalf of “a Printer in Connecticut” (Account XVI, XXVI, 3). This printer was James Watson; see XXVI, 547. The type was not shipped on Niles’s ship the Spy, as we had speculated; it was placed on the Alliance in April, and will be discussed in vol. 29.