To Benjamin Franklin from the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 14 October 1782
From the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux
AL:7 American Philosophical Society
Paris 14 8bre 1782
Les abbés de Chalut et Arnoux assurent de leur amitié leur respectable ami. Ils lui envoyent quatre lettres de recommandation pour M. le Chevalier Neuvenham.8 Ils sont à ses ordres dans toutes les choses qui dependront deux.
Mille amitiés au cher petit fils.
7. In the hand of Guillaume Arnoux. The first names of Arnoux and Jean Chalut have been supplied to us by Philippe Alasseur: Archives nationales, Minutier central, étude XVIII, 903, Sept. 3, 1792, and étude V, 2 (46), Sept. 11, 1787.
8. Sir Edward Newenham. In an Oct. 13 letter to WTF, Newenham requested that BF either write or procure for him letters of introduction to friends in Lyon, Marseille, Toulon, and the Iles d’Hyères, where he and his family planned a stay of some months. Newenham also asked for advice on a matter of court etiquette: would it be proper for him, a stranger, to invite the marquis de Lafayette to dinner, an honor he would dearly like to mention on his return to Ireland? APS.