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To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, 24 April 1783

From Robert Morris

Copy: Library of Congress

Office of Finance 24. April 1783

Sir,

I beg Leave to trouble your Excellency with the Delivery of the enclosed Letter which is left open for your Perusal that in Case the Baron should trouble you farther on the Subject you may be fully possessed of my Sentiments to him.5

I am respectfully, your Excellency’s most obedient and humble Servant

R M.

His Excelly. Benjm. Franklin

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. He enclosed a letter of the same day to Baron d’Arendt (Morris Papers, VII, 750) denying his right to interest on a bill of exchange paid by BF (for which see XXXVIII, 213n).

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, 24 April 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-39-02-0325. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39, January 21 through May 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 500–501.]

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