1To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, 5 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS and copy: Harvard University Library; copy: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; two copies and transcript: National Archives This letter, enclosing an anonymous attack on Schweighauser, was not the only accusation against the agent. At about the same time, we assume, another was forwarded by Chaumont’s neighbor Le Veillard: a Guernsey merchant has four privateers at sea,...