From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 7 September 1779
To Dumas
LS:1 University of Pennsylvania Library; copy: Library of Congress
Passy Sept. 7. 1779
Sir,
Inclosed is a Letter for Capt. Jones, which you are desired to deliver him yourself as soon as possible, after his Arrival.—It will be well to keep secret that you expect him there.2
I hope you had a good Journey home.3 I am with great Esteem Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant.
B Franklin
M. Dumas.
1. In WTF’s hand.
2. See Chaumont to Dumas, above, Sept. 2, for Dumas’ rendezvous with Jones.
3. Dumas must have left Passy soon after receiving the passports which BF and Vergennes wrote for him on Sept. 3; his first letter after his return was not written until the 14th.