Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, 29 January 1784

From Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein7

L: American Philosophical Society

Jeudi ce 29 Jan 1784.

L’Ambassadeur de Suede a l honneur de faire bien des compliments à Monsieur de franklin. Il est faché de ne pas pouvoir avoir l’honneur de profiter de son invitation pour demain mais il aura celui de passer chez monsieur de franklin un des jours de la semaine prochaine pour echanger des Ratifications.8

Notation: L’Ambassadeur de Suede 29. Jan. 1784.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. Appointed Swedish minister at the French court in May, 1783 (XL, 159n), Staël von Holstein was promoted to ambassador the following November: Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter, III, 408.

8. The exchange of ratifications took place on Feb. 6: Staël von Holstein to Rosencrone, Feb. 6, 1784 (Svenska Riksarkivet); copy courtesy of Jane Fitzgerald, National Archives.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, 29 January 1784
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    29 January 1784

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, 29 January 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0331. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 41, September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 516.]