To Benjamin Franklin from Stratford Canning, 25 September 1784

From Stratford Canning2

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Paris the 25th: Sept 1784.

Sir

Yesterday Evening I had the pleasure to receive your Packet covering some Letters which shall be taken care of, I am much obliged to you for those for America for Mr Borrowes.3 Give me Leave to take this opportunity to thank you for your very obliging & polite Reception, and to assure you that I am with the greatest Respect & Esteem, Sir Your most obedt & very huml Servt

Stratfd: Canning.

I have this moment receiv’d another Packet from you which shall be deliver’d.—

Notation: Straf & Canning 25 7bre. 1784.—

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. The merchant who had come to Paris earlier in the month bearing a letter of introduction from Edward Bridgen (Sept. 4, above).

3. Presumably Canning’s partner Walter Borrowes (d. 1811): Gent. Mag., LXXXI (1811), pt. 1, 604; Peter Jupp, ed., The Letter-Journal of George Canning, 1793–1795 (London, 1991), pp. 36–7n.

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Title: To Benjamin Franklin from Stratford Canning, 25 September 1784
Author: Canning, Stratford
Recipient: Franklin, Benjamin
Date: 25 September 1784

Reference

Cite as: “To Benjamin Franklin from Stratford Canning, 25 September 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0086. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 43, August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, p. 141.]