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The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 29 October 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to Vergennes8

LS:9 Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives

<Passy, October 29, 1778: We are ready to execute and exchange the declarations concerning the omission of the 11th and 12th articles of the treaty of commerce,1 and ask you to appoint a day for us to wait on you.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VII.

9In the hand of BF’s secretary Nicolas-Maurice Gellée: XXVI, 287 n.

1Above, Sept. 1. We are unable to account for the delay.

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