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From Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, 3 July 1777

To Silas Deane

ALS: Connecticut Historical Society

Passy, July 3. 1777.

Dear Sir

I have just received the inclos’d from St. Malo, which I send for your Consideration, and as Capt. Wickes will want Credit there, perhaps it may be well to accept the Offers of these Gentlemen. I shall be satisfy’d perfectly with what you may think proper to do on the Occasion.9 I am, with great Esteem, Your most obedient humble Servt.

B Franklin

Honble Silas Deane Esqr

Endorsed: Dr. Franklin

Notation: Dr. Franklin

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9. The enclosure, from Desegray, Beaugeard fils, has disappeared. It must have offered help in getting Wickes’s and Nicholson’s ships ready for sea. The commissioners’ acceptance has also been lost; it went express on the 11th, and was acknowledged in the firm’s letter below, July 14.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, 3 July 1777
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    Deane, Silas
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    3 July 1777

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, 3 July 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-24-02-0192. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 24, May 1 through September 30, 1777, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, p. 255.]

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