1To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Dominique de Roberdeau and Other Favor Seekers and Admirers, 6 March 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society A number of people asked Franklin for a favor during the spring of 1779. According to our custom, we publish a collective summary of their requests, grouped by topic: the forwarding of mail, financial advice or assistance, a position as commissary, and sheer admiration of Franklin. The favor most frequently applied for is that of forwarding mail to America....
2To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Dominique Roberdeau, 15 February 1778 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I duly received the favour you have honoured me with and the inclosed Letter from General Roberdeau of the first May past by way of a proof of his real existence. I have discovered in our Family papers, that one James Roberdeau has left his Country in the last century, and I am quite persuaded that this very same is related to me; I write to him the inclosed...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Dominique de Roberdeau, 8 April 1778 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society Your agreable favour of the 21st feb. past I duly received. The reason of my Silence Was, that gen. roberdeau’s letter, you have been So good as to Send me, has been mislaid, and I could not find it Sooner. Here I send it inclosed according to your desire. Pray give me leave to use this opportunity for myself, and pay you my compliment on the hapy Success of...