1To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Nuttle, 23 October 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society In Consequence of the Protection, which your Lordship was pleased to grant to me, I have obtain’d justice from the Court of France; Mr. Necker Director General of the finance has judged irregular the Seizure made on the 14 Guns on Board the Two Brothers, and has order’d the Custom house Officers to deliver them up. Upon my going to receive them I was...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Nuttle, 6 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I take the Liberty of applying to your Excellency for that Protection, which every true American has always found in your Excellency; the last time I was at Paris & that I had the honour of being Presented to your Excellency, your Excellency was Pleased to promise it to me; it is with the Greatest Sorrow, that I see myself Confined in France at the Same...