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To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [1779?]

From Lafayette

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Friday Morning [1779?]6

I Must Beg Your Pardon, My dear Sir, for My not Having the Honor to Waït Upon You this Morning But I Had the fever all Night and phisicians forbid My Going out Before diner. In Case I am Better, I Will do Myself the Honor to Waït Upon You to Morrow about one in the Morning, and in the Mean While I Have the Honor to Be Very Respectfully Your obt Hble Sert

Lafayette

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. The earliest probable date.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [1779?]
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    Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    1779

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [1779?],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-31-02-0215. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 31, November 1, 1779, through February 29, 1780, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 320.]

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