1To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Paine, 20 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have just Time to write you a Word or two, and have the pleasure of acquainting you of my being appointd Secretary to the Committee for foreign Affairs. I conceive the honor to be the greater as the appointment was [ not ] only unsolicited on my part but made unknown to me. The News of your safe arrival in France was received here with inexpressible...