To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Sarsfield, 14 March 1783
From the Comte de Sarsfield
AL: American Philosophical Society
Vendredi 14 mars 1783
Mr De Sarsfield a lhonneur de faire bien des Complimens a Monsieur franklin Et le prie d’avoir la bonté de luy envoyer la lettre de recommandation qu’il a eu celle de lui promettre En faveur De lady Juliana Penn dont un des fils va passer En pensilvanie.8
Addressed: hotel de sarsfield} a Monsieur / Monsieur franklin ministre / plenipotentiaire des Etats / unis d’Amerique / A Passy.
8. For Lady Juliana Penn, her family, and her attempt to reclaim family property in Pennsylvania see XXXVIII, 343–4, 464n. Her son John arrived in Paris on Jan. 31 and went immediately to visit the American commissioners: Howard M. Jenkins, “The Family of William Penn,” PMHB, XXI (1897), 424. BF recommended him to John Dickinson in a letter of March 23, below.