Printed announcement with MS insertions: American Philosophical Society La Cour prendra le Deuil le neuf de ce mois, à l’occasion de la mort de Mademoiselle. Sa Majesté le portera 21 jours. Addressed: a Monsieur / Monsieur francklin / Ministre Plenipore des Etats Unis / de l’Amerique Septentrionale / a Passy / vers Paris ./. De séqueville The date of death of Sophie, known as “Mademoiselle”...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Laurens, 6 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
LS : South Carolina Historical Society; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your kind Letter of the 28th. past, and I send you herewith the anonymous Brussels Letter, as you desire. When I had last the Pleasure of seeing you at Passy, I forgot to mention to you that Mr. Ridley soon after your Departure for the South of France, call’d upon me with a Request that I would let him...
3From George Washington to William Livingston, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I want Words to express the heart-felt pleasure I experence on receiving the congratulation & plaudit of so respectable a Body, as the Legislature of the State of New Jersey—I cannot however suppress the effusions of my gratitude for their flattering allusion to an event which hath immortalized & signalized the name of Trenton; for the delicate manner of their recalling to mind none but...
4From George Washington to John Neilson, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I receive with perfect satisfaction the Address of the Citizens of New Brunswick, and acknowledge with great sensibility that their sentiments of my character & services are favorable beyond my fondest expectations. If any thing could add to my happiness, at the present auspicious period, it would be the testimony of esteem & veneration which you, Gentlemen, have just exhibited towards those...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes, 6 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères Being now disabled by the Stone, which in the easiest Carriage gives me Pain, wounds my Bladder & occasions me to make bloody Urine, I find I can no longer pay my Devoirs personally at Versailles, which I hope will be excused. I have yet received from Congress no Answer to my Request of being recalled. In the mean time I must beg your...
6To George Washington from William Livingston, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
We should think ourselves highly inexcusable, did we neglect this opportunity, of congratulating your Excellency on your Arrival in this Town, the present residence of the Legislature of this State; & a Town which you Sir, have render’d famous to the latest posterity, by the most unexampled efforts of military genius; & your signal Victory over an Enemy till then, through the great superiority...
7To George Washington from John Neilson, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Amidst the General Acclamations of Joy on the Glorious termination of the War, the Citizens of New Brunswick beg Leave to Approach Your Excellency with their tribute of thanks for your eminent Services, for your heroic, perseverance and Judicious Conduct displayed in every Stage of the hazardous Conflict. It is not our design to enter into a detail of the Virtues which constitute Your...
8To George Washington from Henry Babcock, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you, upon the Independency of your Country, The Conspicuous part your Excellency has acted, upon the Great American Drama in bringing about this important Revolution, will ever endear you to your Country, & many Millions yet unborn, will rise up, and call you blessed. as the Father and protector of your Country, of the rights of Humanity. In Opposition to the...
9Saturday. Decr. 6th. 1783. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. W. Vassal’s at Clapham. William Vassall , once a prominent Bostonian, now a loyalist refugee, whom JA later described as “one of my old friends and clients ... a man of letters and virtues, without one vice that I ever knew or suspected, except garrulity” ( Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard...