1From Benjamin Franklin to Kéralio, [on or after 20 November 1781] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress I received my dear Friend’s kind Felicitations, and thank him for them, and beg him to accept mine in Return. The well founded Joy too of our excellent and most amiable Friend, doubles mine. Her great Sensibility sometimes gives her Pain, but the same must make her Pleasures more exquisite. I enjoy with her the great Honour her Sons have acquir’d in fighting so...
2From Benjamin Franklin to [the Chevalier de Kéralio?], 5 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
French translation: Public Record Office Lord Stormont, when he sent this translation to London with a dispatch of December 6, described the recipient as Franklin’s intimate friend. We are inclined to think that friend was the Chevalier de Kéralio who has not yet appeared in our volumes but whom Franklin had certainly met either through John MacMahon at the Ecole Militaire, or the dowager...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Kéralio, 2 March 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress You have given me infinite Pleasure by the Good News you have sent me of our beloved Friend’s Recovery. I pray God there may be no Relapse. When you write, please to present mine & my Grandson’s affectionate Respects. I am ever, with sincere Esteem & Attachment Kéralio described himself as the secretary of the duchesse douairière de Deux Ponts, who in February...