11To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Tartivot, 1 February 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <February 1, 1778, in French: If Frenchmen emigrate to America, I am asked to tell you about two young men from a respectable family who want to spend some years there. They are only sixteen and eighteen but have been trained in agriculture and the lumber trade; they can write a little and have some arithmetic, as well as “l’Esprit de Sagesse et baucoup de...