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To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel Roberdeau, 5 January 1779

From Daniel Roberdeau

Two ALS:2 American Philosophical Society

Philada. Jany. 5th. 1779

Dear Sir

As you were so polite as to enclose me a Letter from my Namesake3 permit me the liberty of using the same Channel of conveyance and to ask the favor of you to forward the enclosed. I am very respectfully Dr. Sir Yr. most obt. & very huml. Servt.

Daniel Roberdeau

His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esquire

Addressed: His Excellency / Benjamin Franklin Esquire / Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court / of France— / Passy.—

Notation: Daniel Roberdeau 5. jr. 1779.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. One is marked “Copy.”

3. Jacques-Dominique de Roberdeau: see XXV, 672; XXVI, 258.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel Roberdeau, 5 January 1779
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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel Roberdeau, 5 January 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-28-02-0287. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 28, November 1, 1778, through February 28, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990, pp. 354–355.]

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