To Benjamin Franklin from ——— David, 18 August 1780
From ——— David6
AL: American Philosophical Society
à Paris le 18. aoust 1780.
M. David Secretaire de Legation de la Cour Palatine a l’honneur d’envoyer à Monsieur francklin un Paquett qui lui a eté adressé par l’academie de Manheim.7 Il a celui de lui rendre en meme tems ses hommages./.
Addressed: a Monsieur / Monsieur francklin Ministre / Plenipotentiaire des Etats unis de / de L’amerique près du Roy / a Passy
Notation David Paris le 18. Aout 1780.
6. David (XXV, 241) had served the Elector Palatine at the French Court since 1768: Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter, III, 304.
7. The packet undoubtedly contained the fourth volume of the Transactions of the Palatine Academy of Sciences, which the abbé Jacob Hemmer had promised to send BF as soon as it was printed: XXVII, 457. The volume, he said, would include four of his essays on electricity. Hemmer’s note to BF, announcing the presentation of the “dernier volume physique de l’academie de Manheim,” is dated Manheim, Aug. 8, 1780, and written in French: APS.