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To Benjamin Franklin from Graf von Schönfeld, 13 October 1783

From Graf von Schönfeld7

AL: American Philosophical Society

ce Lundy 13. d’Octobre 1783

Le Baron de Schönfeld a l’honneur d’assurer de ses hommages Monsieur Franklin et de Le prier de vouloir bien faire passer par son Paquet à Philadelphie, la lettre ci jointe pour le Sr. Thieriot.8 Il Le prie d’agréer ses excuses et ses remercimens.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. The Saxon minister, who roughly a month earlier had sent BF an undated invitation to dinner on Thursday, Sept. 18 (APS).

8. For Thieriot, a Saxon charged with establishing commercial relations with the United States, whom Schönfeld had introduced to BF in July, see XL, 270, 350–1, 375–6, 555.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Graf von Schönfeld, 13 October 1783
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    Schönfeld, Johann Hilmar Adolf Graf von
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    13 October 1783

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Graf von Schönfeld, 13 October 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0067. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 41, September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 98.]