From Benjamin Franklin to Mayer, 3 January 1785
To Mayer
ALS: Biblioteche Civiche e Raccolte Storiche, Turin
Passy, Jan. 3. 1785.
Sir,
I have just receiv’d the Piece, entitled, Asgill, &c. which you have been so good as to send me.1 Please to accept my Thanks, together with the Book of our Constitutions,2 which I send herewith. I am, Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant
B. Franklin
M. de Mayer.—
1. Mayer was one of the several writers producing fictional renditions of the Charles Asgill story around this time. (For a dramatized version, performed before BF at Passy, see the annotation of Nogaret’s letter of [December?].) Mayer’s novel was titled Asgill, ou les désordres des guerres civiles (Amsterdam [i.e., Paris], 1784); it was announced in the Jour. de Paris on May 7, 1784, and reviewed there on Nov. 6.
2. Which Mayer had requested the previous day; see his letter, above.