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From Benjamin Franklin to Mayer, 3 January 1785

To Mayer

ALS: Biblioteche Civiche e Raccolte Storiche, Turin

Passy, Jan. 3. 1785.

Sir,

I have just receiv’d the Piece, entitled, Asgill, &c. which you have been so good as to send me.1 Please to accept my Thanks, together with the Book of our Constitutions,2 which I send herewith. I am, Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant

B. Franklin

M. de Mayer.—

1. Mayer was one of the several writers producing fictional renditions of the Charles Asgill story around this time. (For a dramatized version, performed before BF at Passy, see the annotation of Nogaret’s letter of [December?].) Mayer’s novel was titled Asgill, ou les désordres des guerres civiles (Amsterdam [i.e., Paris], 1784); it was announced in the Jour. de Paris on May 7, 1784, and reviewed there on Nov. 6.

2. Which Mayer had requested the previous day; see his letter, above.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to Mayer, 3 January 1785
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    Mayer, Charles-Joseph
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    3 January 1785

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    “From Benjamin Franklin to Mayer, 3 January 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0261. [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, pp. 387–388.]

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