To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Henry Lee, 11 December 1784
From Richard Henry Lee
ALS: American Philosophical Society; ALS (draft): Yale University Library; copy:5 National Archives
Trenton december the 11th. 1784
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a packet for his most Christian Majesty containing a letter from Congress to that Monarch recommending our able and active friend the Marquis la Fayette to his royal favor.6
The Marquis’s former and recent services to America deserve, and have secured to him, the warmest attachment of these United States.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the highest respect and esteem, Sir your Excellencies most obedient humble servant
Richard Henry Lee.
P.
P.S. The packet for his most Christian Majesty is left open to be sealed or otherwise as you shall deem most proper—
R. H. Lee
5. Which does not include the postscript.
6. Congress to Louis XVI, Dec. 11, 1784: JCC, XXVII, 682–3. Lee sent the present letter and its enclosure under cover of a letter to Lafayette, also of Dec. 11: Smith, Letters, XXII, 62.