1To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 4 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I have already wrote you by this Conveyance. You doubtless will have heard of Mr. Deane’s Letters that have made so much noise in our Hemisphere, and which have ruined him in the opinions of his Countrymen. In hearing these Letters spoke of in various Companies, Dr. Bancroft’s name has been brought in question, and I find him lay under some suspicions—...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, 4 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Library; copy: Library of Congress I observe that in your Letter of the twelfth of September you say you beleive those Bills of Mr. Ross’s must go back protested. This I am convinced proceeds from a Mistake with respect to that Transaction. It is true that the Resolution for delivering those Bills to Mr. Ross was passed in...