61To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, [18 May 1781] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Voulez vous bien que je vous demande, mon illustre Docteur, ce qui en est de lavantage, qu’on dit que Le Genl Greene a remporté Sur le General Cornwallis, dans la caroline Septentrionale; loin d’en avoir été battu, comme l’ont dit, des lettres d’Ecosse? Si vous avez recu quelques nouvelles d’Amerique à ce Sujet, ou Si notre cour en a euës? Un mot De réponse...
62To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, [24 June 1777] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your grandson M. Franklin told me Yesterday as I was coming from Paris That you were so good to invite The whole family to dinner for next friday, Me. LeRoy I and the little Basil. But as M. Franklin seemed to me not very certain of the Day I sent my man to ask you whether Your Dinner is really for friday and not for Thursday because as I go to morrow to...
63To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, [8 or 15 April 1783] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Vous voulez bien mon Illustre Docteur donner à diner à une Jolie femme, qui meurt denvie de voir un grand homme de l’Amérique. Je crains que vous ne me trouviez bien indiscret en vous demandant la permission de vous mener jeudy par dessus le marché Un jeune Officier qui a le méme désir et non moins vivement, et qui est le fils d’un de nos bons amis M....
64To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy: Two Letters, [on or after 25 September 1782] (Franklin Papers)
(I) ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library; (II) AL : American Philosophical Society I have read with great pleasure my Dear Doctor your ingenious Hypothesis about the cause of the extraordinary Motions of the Earth and certainly if one may Suppose The air at liberty in the internal part of the Earth and to be compressed by the internal atmosphere its density may be vastly great. I do not...
65To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, 23 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This letter and Le Roy’s next one, which we believe was written the following day, are the first from his new lodgings in the Rue de Seine. The second one is obviously in 1777; hence our dating of the two, on the assumption that they both relate to the same dinner party. Here he is sure when it is but unsure who is invited; a day later he has learned from...
66Franklin and Le Roy: Report on Lightning Rods at Strasbourg, 12 May 1780: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Académie royale des sciences, Paris Started between 1015 and 1028 in Romanesque style, the magnificent cathedral of Strasbourg underwent many transformations over the centuries. Around 1320, the intersection of nave and transept was marked by a Gothic construction resembling a bishop’s miter, hence called the Mitre . By 1365 the twin towers of the façade had been erected, and were...