1The Commissioners to Jonathan Trumbull, 22 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
We received your Excellencys Letter of May 29, by Captain Niles, with the Dispatches from Congress, which you had intrusted him, with, in good order. He had a short Passage of 22 days and brought Us the agreable News of the Ratification of the Treaties, and of their being universally pleasing to our Country. We shall order some Lead to be shipped on Board his Vessell, and have furnished him...
2The American Commissioners to Jonathan Trumbull, 22 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives (two) We received your Excellency’s Letter of May 29. by Capt. Niles with the Dispatches from Congress which you had intrusted him with, in good Order. He had a short Passage of 22 Days, and brought us the agreable News of the Ratification of the Treaties and of their being universally pleasing to our...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Trumbull, 2 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, Chicago, Illinois, (1963); incomplete copy: Library of Congress I received by Col. Dircks, the Letter your Excellency did me the Honour to write to me of the 12th December last. I also had the great Pleasure of reading your Letter to Mr. Vander Capellen, agreeable to your kind Permission. Col. Dircks went from hence immediately to Holland, and I have not since...